Java - Sun or other? Prefer less bugs & more stable.

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/14/2010 01:30 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Friday, May 14, 2010 03:12 PM, giovanni_re wrote:
>    
>> What are the options for Java as of 10.4?
>>
>> Around 9.04, IIRC, there was Sun's,&   another independent implementation considered Debian free.  The sun version IIRC was considered more bug free, but perhaps not DFSG free.
>>
>> I'd prefer less bugs&   more stable.
>>
>> This will be used by some applications that need a java engine to run java code.  Ex: Eclipse?&   some others I don't recall.
>>
>> For a 10.4 install, what is the current advice&   issues??
>>
>>      
> I'd imagine OpenJDk which is after all largely from Sun Java code that
> has been gpl'ed...
>
> Unless you are using stuff that is found in Sun's Java that has not yet
> been or cannot be gpl'ed...
>
>    
         I am looking for a java I can apt-get and perhaps there is 
none. I tried this

arl at Lucid:~$ sudo apt-get install java
[sudo] password for karl:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package java
karl at Lucid:~$ sudo apt-get install openjdk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package openjdk
karl at Lucid:~$

     Possible there is none. I have tried to install from the Sun Java 
page that comes up when you try to view a video with FF, and it now says 
it was successful, but still can't view the video.

     Is there any good way to do this?


73 Karl




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