[wellylug] Java

[Oliver Lineham]

At 08:11 p.m. 29/10/2005, you wrote:
>>I usually download and use the Sun one.
>
>Yep, that sounds like a good generic one to use.  I assume of course that 
>Josef was wanting the Runtime?  JRE.  I've used the Sun one in the past 
>with multiple distro's without problems.

It's still better to use "java-package" from debian to repackage Sun's 
installer, rather than run the installer directly.  That way APT knows what 
you've done, so you don't run into dependency trouble later with packages 
for apps which depend on "java-virtual-machine" etc.

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