Not a bash, just the facts

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:25:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Actually, it's click to download, double click to run the installer, 
> click-click-click-click-click-accept through the wizard. Then it 
> installs.
> 
> And Linux is not Windows, so comparing them is not valid. Analogy: you 
> are complaining that your helicopter doesn't have a steering wheel 
> like your car does.

Just for the record, one does not actually have to do the whole drawn
out procedure of making a deb file for the JRE/JDK. The Sun bin file
actually works just fine by itself. The only issue there is that you
have to also handle where you want it to install and adding that
install directory to your path, but this is not really a huge deal,
and in some ways is somewhat easier.

Of course, the Debian/Ubuntu Way(TM) (perhaps we should start saying,
"The Debuntu Way") of installing the JRE/JDK is easier in the sense
that it is easier to maintain. But, that said, I have in the past just
used the Sun installer and put it in /opt/jdk or something like
that. That's about as easy as you can get for maintenence: Don't want
it? Just rm -rf /opt/jdk :)

Mike