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

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Minor corrections: The sources.list line should say:
deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free restricted
The install line should say:
sudo apt-get install sun-j2se5.0-jre-binary

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:26:02 -0700, Eric De Mund wrote:

> 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
> /-----------------------------
> - 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
> \-----------------------------
> 
> Eric