how do i install java?

[David Coldrick]

Hi Horst,

There are a few Java installation guides floating about: if you follow the
instructions on my blog (
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/coldrick?entry=java_development_on_ubuntu_part),
you should be OK. Those instructions are for the jdk, but ut work for just
the jre if that's all you need.

You're right, you can't get rid of libgcj because of some (totally bogus,
AFAIK) dependencies. Very annoying!

Regards,
David

On 10/26/05, Horst Schlonz <horst.schlonz at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i followed this guide
> http://help.ubuntu.com/starterguide/C/ch03s02.html, but it doesn't get
> me java, because there is no /usr/bin/java in the package.
>
> i seem to have some fake java installed:
> # java -version
> java version "1.4.2"
> gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu
> 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)
>
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
> NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
>
> also, i can't move gij-4.0 out of the way without removing OOo and other
> stuff. is java not supposed to run on breezy?
>
>
>
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