[Gllug] Java ...

[Paul Cupis]

On Wednesday 27 October 2004 19:06, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> 
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 06:42:02PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> > The Sun JVM is huge, non-free, and well, it's Java... all good
> > reasons to avoid it. However, I struggle to see how the installer
> > could be incompatible with Debian. IIRC, it's a self extracting
> > shell script. What error do you get?
>
> No, I meant it's not a .deb.  (IIRC even the .rpm they supply is a
> sorry excuse for a package).

There used to be a tool called mpkg-j2sdk which would "convert" the 
downloaded file from sun.com into a fairly-compliant .deb. I don't know 
if it is still around online, or if it has been tested with Java 1.5, 
but I've had great success with it and Java 1.4.

As I said, I can't see it on the 'net anymore, but I do have a copy if 
you are interested. mpkg-j2sdk package is ~9.0kb.

Paul Cupis
-- 
paul at cupis.co.uk

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