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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">What is the advantage of doing this over just installing the .bin?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">>>> Eric SCHAEFFER <eschaeffer@emahoo.com> 09/30/04 09:13am >>></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">The <a href="http://z42.de/debian/">http://z42.de/debian/</a> site provides you a package that "transform"</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Sun JRE/JDK bin files into a debian package. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">You need to download the bin file from Sun's site, install the z42</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">package (j2se-package), create a deb from bin file (see man pages,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">really easy) and then install the newly created deb (depends on</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">java-common only, I think).</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">You can then install the debian extras package from z42 (ex:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">sun-j2sdk1.4debian) if you want.</font></div>
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