http://www.osnews.com/story/17141/Installing_JDK6_on_Debian_Etch Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:34:55 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?208306 http://osnews.com/thread?208306 You'll find it in java-package and it is included in Etch. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B. Janssen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208316 http://osnews.com/thread?208316 I don't understand this kind of news.Install jdk ? Just go to java site, download and run the script, or install from apt-get.How follows ? install photoshop cs2 on windows XP ?Edited 2007-02-02 13:02 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (csousa) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208320 http://osnews.com/thread?208320 AFAIK the current java-package does not support Java6 versions yet. Not the Sun version and not the IBM version.

As far as installing the Sun version goes, it is included in the official Debian non-free repositories, both for i386 and amd64. Testing only has Sun Java 5, while unstable also has Sun Java 6.

The article is actually giving bad advice. You can just install it from the repositories and configure the active java version with "update-alternatives".

ruben@beast ~ $ apt-cache search sun-java
sun-java5-bin - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 (architecture dependent files)
sun-java5-demo - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 demos and examples
sun-java5-doc - Sun JDK(TM) Documention -- integration installer
sun-java5-fonts - Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE)
sun-java5-jdk - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0
sun-java5-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 (architecture independent files)
sun-java5-plugin - The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 5.0
sun-java5-source - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 source files
sun-java6-bin - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture dependent files)
sun-java6-demo - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 demos and examples
sun-java6-doc - Sun JDK(TM) Documention -- integration installer
sun-java6-fonts - Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE)
sun-java6-jdk - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6
sun-java6-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture independent files)
sun-java6-plugin - The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6
sun-java6-source - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 source files Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (snowbender) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208327 http://osnews.com/thread?208327 snowbender: AFAIK the current java-package does not support Java6 versions yet. Not the Sun version and not the IBM version.

I thought so, but don't know. So, let's try what worked previously with 1.5.0+ releases. Edit your /usr/share/java-package/sun-j2sdk.sh to include the following:

("jdk-6-linux-amd64.bin")
j2se_version=1.6.0
j2se_expected_min_size=45 # Size in MB of .bin
found=true
;;

Obviously this is untested. Anyway, it should give you a .deb-package you can install with dpkg -i and satisfy all depends.

EDIT: added "Size in MB"Edited 2007-02-02 13:37 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (B. Janssen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208351 http://osnews.com/thread?208351 or otherwise you simply extract the dir, smash it into /opt, and set the apropriate environment variables.. will work for all dists, and isnt really a problem. except that it leaves deps unsolved. now i dont know how to work around that in debian, but any package manager should easily have an option to inject a package as installed. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Redeeman) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208513 http://osnews.com/thread?208513 You'll find it in java-package and it is included in Etch.

Sure, it's there. Debian has everything and the kitchen sink but finding something is like an expedition to Mars in search of intelligent life.
Took me a while to find out how to install Java on Debian and I'm not exactly new to Linux.
Honestly, I don't understand Debian at all.
Why have all these fancy scripts (more like a spagetti soup of scripts) when in the end they're so complicated to use that it would be easier to do it manualy through the basic Linux features.
Update-alternatives is one good example of insane complexity and spagetti soup of scripts.
And with all these built-in scripts, Debian doesn't even have a basic utility to choose which services to run at startup. You have to go find one, and install it from the repos. (at least that's my experience after doing the install from the net-install cd. Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (shapeshifter) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208671 http://osnews.com/thread?208671 Come on, you're not going to convince me that you even bothered to try.
A very simple command installs it:

"sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre"

Congratulations. Please switch to Ubuntu, they are more idiot-proof. Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jang) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208684 http://osnews.com/thread?208684 right, ubuntu is meant for those who can't tell the difference between jdk and jre . Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gsmd) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?208686 http://osnews.com/thread?208686 I doubt people who can't even manage to install the damn thing could be people who need a jdk. Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jang) Comments