[conspire] setting up Java runtime environment (JRE) under Debian Sarge (3.1)

[Eric De Mund]

All,

I forward these notes here in case anyone else might find them useful;
in particular, the "deb" line in /etc/apt/sources.list included here was
my 3rd or 4th try, the various previous tries coming from following bad
recommendations of various miscellaneous web sites.

setting up Java runtime environment (JRE) under Debian Sarge (3.1) Linux
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- add these lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:
  # blackdown java
  # Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:37:00 PDT
  deb ftp://ftp2.skynet.be/pub/ftp.blackdown.org/debian/ sarge non-free

- invoke these commands:
  % sudo apt-get update  
  % sudo apt-get install j2re1.4

- notice that mozilla-firefox java plugin is updated:
  /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins% ls -alF
  total 8
  drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Jul 25 02:04 ./
  drwxr-xr-x  11 root root 4096 May 29 18:06 ../
  lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   44 Mar 20 03:18 flashplayer.xpt -> /usr/lib/flas\
  hplugin-nonfree/flashplayer.xpt
  lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   46 Mar 20 03:18 libflashplayer.so -> /usr/lib/fl\
  ashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so*
  lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   54 Jul 25 02:04 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /etc/alt\
  ernatives/libjavaplugin_oji_mozilla_firefox.so
  lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   40 May 11 00:37 nphelix.so -> /usr/lib/helix/pla\
  yer/mozilla/nphelix.so

- restart mozilla-firefox browser

- visit http://java.com/ and observe that Java applets work
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Eric
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Eric De Mund
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