Java problems

[Jack Jackson]

Thanks, Eric!

On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 16:22 +0200, Eric Feliksik wrote:
> Jack Jackson wrote:
> > What oh what is the flippin name of the Java to install please?
> > 
> > user at br33z:~$ sudo apt-cache search sun-j2
> > sun-j2re1.4 - Java(TM) 2 RE, Standard Edition, Sun Microsystems(TM)
> > sun-j2re1.5 - Java(TM) 2 RE, Standard Edition, Sun Microsystems(TM)
> > user at br33z:~$ sudo apt-cache show sun-j2rel.5
> > W: Unable to locate package sun-j2rel.5
> > E: No packages found
> > 
> > Why ? What am I doing wrong? 
> 
> The non-free sun implementation of java (the official one) is not 
> packaged, because sun does not permit that. The packages you see are 
> help-packages to help you install the official version, which apparently 
> doesn't work. You can download it manually from java.sun.com and install 
> it in /opt if you can't figure out how to do it in another way.
> 
> 
> > Also how can I uninstall the 
> > 
> > java version "1.4.2"
> > gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu
> > 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)
> > 
> > that I put on there? Since I can't find a package name to remove I
> > cannot remove it
> > 
> 
> If you don't know what package a file belongs to, do `dpkg -S 
> /your/file`. Then you know what to remove. If you didn't install it with 
>   a package manager, you can just remove it.
>