Java application installation problem

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:38:23 +0800
"Shu Hung (Koala)" <koalay at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seem that the problem is related to Bug
> #47045<https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/sun-java5/+bug/47045>
> I think I have to wait for multiverse to update
> sun-java5-bin to version 1.5.0-07

1.5.0-07 is available, for example:
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/s/sun-java5/sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-07-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/s/sun-java5/sun-java5-jre_1.5.0-07-0ubuntu1_all.deb
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/s/sun-java5/sun-java5-plugin_1.5.0-07-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

These are " edgy" packages, I assume, but I installed them on dapper
without incident. After downloading the three files they should install
with

 sudo dpkg -i sun-java5-jre_1.5.0-07-0ubuntu1_all.deb
sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-07-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
sun-java5-plugin_1.5.0-07-0ubuntu1_i386.deb


(All on one line - install all of them in one command or dpkg will
complain about missing dependencies)

Important to note that you need _all three files_ to satisfy dependencies.

 I just did this on dapper and it hasn't broken java in firefox (verified
with the test at java.com) or azureus, so I'm guessing it is safe ( after
all, java is it's own little world, is it not? *G* )

This is a bit "out there" I guess - but my assumption is that a point
release of java from edgy, on dapper, won't break anything - someone please
yell at me if I'm wrong ;-)

Hope this helps, and all that...

Peter