where to get sun-java5-jdk, and java incompatibilities

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 25 May 2010, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:

> http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/amd64/sun-java5-jdk/download
>
> Just grab the deb you want and extract the files and copy them to
> say /opt/sunjava5jdk.
>
> Setup JAVA_HOME as appropriate whenever you do your android stuff.
> Or hit www.java.com for a tarball.

  ah, of course, i should have remembered that.  we'll see just how
badly things go if i ignore the advice, remove the java version
test and try it with java 1.6 first.  at the very least, it should be
good for the entertainment value.

rday


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