[conspire] installing java as a debian package under 4.0r0

[Eric De Mund]

All,

Installing Sun's Java Runtime Environment (JRE) under debian used to be
a multistep affair that involved [1] converting a Sun jre*.bin file to
.deb, [2] "dpkg -i"-installing that created package, and then [3]
creating a symbolic link from a Sun /usr/lib/.../plugin/i386/ns7/libjava
plugin_oji.so file either to one in ~/.mozilla/plugins or in /usr/lib/
{mozilla,firefox}/plugins.

Not fun. Now, under debian 4.0r0 (etch), it appears to be simpler:

    % apt-get install sun-java5-jre sun-java5-plugin

That's all that I seemed to need, in any event.

Info forwarded FYI. Cheers,
Eric
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