OSNews > Thread > "RE: I guess, make-jpkg was too complicated?" by snowbender

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Feb 2007 11:21 UTC, submitted by anonymous

"I find Debian an outstanding distro for server needs with its latest version Etch nearly been released as of the day I'm writing this. Java 6 isn't available from its repositories and I doubt it would for Etch. So it's time to grab the situation into your hands and install it manually."

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RE: I guess, make-jpkg was too complicated?

by snowbender on Fri 2nd Feb 2007 13:13 UTC in reply to "I guess, make-jpkg was too complicated?"

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2006-05-04

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

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RE[2]: I guess, make-jpkg was too complicated?

by B. Janssen on Fri 2nd Feb 2007 13:36 in reply to "RE: I guess, make-jpkg was too complicated?"

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2006-10-11

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

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