Installing Java JDK on debian sarge

[aaronkupen]

I was able to install it by downloading the file and then going through the installer. I then set the PATH variable and it worked, but just recently I read and someone else told me that that is not the best way to do it. I read it is better to use the apt tool to do it but I can not figure out how to do it that way.

Can someone walk me through it?

 

[The General]

apt-get install java-package

That's for Azureus

I've always done it the way you did it. They only recently added Java to the apt repository, and I think it's safe to assume its kind of buggy.

Make sure you symlink the Java plugin to Mozilla though.

 

[aaronkupen]

yah I've got that far, but after i do apt-get install java-package i have no idea what else to do to set it up. Symlink?

 

[The General]

You didn't need to apt-get that if you already used the other installer...

 

[aaronkupen]

No I didn't use it, I did it that way on my earlier linux partition. I just wanted to do it the right way this time.

 

[The General]

I'll post back when I'm home and have access to my Linux box...
All I have here at work is my laptop (OSX/Winblows) and my Windows box.

I'll get what you need posted in a few hours.

 

[aaronkupen]

Well this is supposadly "the better way".

apt-get install java-package
fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0_07-linux-i586.bin
dpkg -i *.deb

but when I do the second step, it fails near the end because I don't have the necessary permissions to copy a file or something.

 

[The General]

>.<

I was thinking this is JRE, I don't know anything about JDK.

Woops, sorry.

 

[aaronkupen]

Okay, the way I did worked it just turned out that I was in a directory with restrictions.