No GCJ, only Sun Java5: how??

[Ringo De Smet]

--- Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> Ringo De Smet wrote:
> 
> > I am running Ubuntu 6.10 and I am trying to install Tomcat 5.5 on Sun
> Java
> > 5. I have installed the Sun Java5 packages (bin, jre, jdk, plugin) from
> > multiverse and I would now like to install Tomcat. My problem now is
> that
> > every package management tool (apt, aptitude, synaptic) insists on
> > installing gcj/gij stuff. 
> 
> Not for Tomcat.  I run Tomcat, with Sun java (from multiverse) and don't
> have gcj.

How did you manage to get this? Every package management tool I used
insisted on installing gcj. It seems that the "provides java2-runtime" from
the Sun Java4 JRE package is not detected somehow.

> > Is there any way I can prevent the installation of gcj/gij 
> > stuff? update-java-alternatives didn't help me out here.
> 
> By not installing things that insist on gcj...

That doesn't help me any further. The Tomcat package needs a Java
environment, therefore it has a logical OR of kaffe, gcj and java2-runtime.
It is this logical OR that doesn't seem to work, as I have a package that
provides java2-runtime and so fullfills the logical OR.

Ringo

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