using other distro's repos?

[Derek Broughton]

Ken McLennan wrote:

> G'day there One & All,
> 
>>> with apt).  It's written in java, if that makes a difference.
>>> I suppose have to make the jar into a deb or something?
>>> (Okay, okay...I'll get googling....suggestion are appreciated all the
>>> same...)
>>>     
>     I'm not a guru of any variety, but it seems to me that if there's a
> .jar file then a package is kind of superfluous.

"kind of" is the key.  You don't _need_ it, but having it wrapped in a
debian package gets you automatic updates.
-- 
derek