Java Environment (7.04)

[Dick Dowdell]

Jack,

I'm fairly new to Ubuntu myself, but I'm a very old hand at Java
development.  For some reason Kaffe is distributed with Ubuntu rather than
the Sun JDK/JRE.  I've not found it a good choice.

Yop can download Sun's Java JDK1.6.0_02 from Sun (http://java.sun.com) and
Eclipse 3.2 (the best Java IDE)n from http://www.eclipse.org.  I've used
Alien to convert the available RPMs to Debian packages and installed them
using dpkg.  Seems to work pretty well and it's easier than setting up using
the general-purpose tat.gz files..  Make sure the the JAVA_HOME environment
variable is not pointed at Kaffe.

Regards,
Dick Dowdell


On 7/31/07, jack <jdangler at terremark.com> wrote:
>
> I have 7.04 running and came across this page which details building a
> java dev environment on ubuntu feisty...
>
> http://blogs.sun.com/coldrick/entry/java_development_on_ubuntu_part
>
> After d/l'ing the jdk, the author says to execute this as a normal user
> fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6u2-linux-i586.bin
>
> When I execute this, I get this -
> ~/Desktop$ fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6u2-linux-i586.bin
> Creating temporary directory: /tmp/make-jpkg.olfjh14729
> Loading plugins: blackdown-j2re.sh blackdown-j2sdk.sh common.sh
> ibm-j2re.sh ibm-j2sdk.sh j2re.sh j2sdk-doc.sh j2sdk.sh j2se.sh
> sun-j2re.sh sun-j2sdk-doc.sh sun-j2sdk.sh
>
> Detected Debian build architecture: i386
> Detected Debian GNU type: i486-linux-gnu
>
> No matching plugin was found.
> Removing temporary directory: done
>
> I'm assuming this didn't work because of the lack of a plugin named
> jdk-6u2... Does this mean that I need to d/l the runtime (jre) of the
> same release? (I did see a Java JRE 6u2 on sun's site) ...
>
> Any input, as always, is appreciated.
>
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