confusion, jre(1.5) and binutils, version problem

kaz2100 · 08-16-2006, 11:29 AM

Hi, Penguins.

My penguin is Debian, etch (Celeron/M).

I downloaded Java Runtime Environment (jre_1_5_0_07-linux-i586.bin) from www.java.com.

Installation went without problem.

However, runtime errors show up, complaining missing shared libraries, one of them follows

Code:

java: error while loading shared libraries: libopcodes-2.16.91.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ldconfig can detect libopcodes-2.17, so it is missing. Also, libbfd-2.16.91 is missing.

I checked www.gnu.org and at this moment, am a kind of reluctant to install another version of binutils (which contains libopcodes/bfd), as I do not want serious side effect.

I am quite sure that somebody else has same problem.

What would be the easiest way to solve this?

Or am I making serious misunderstanding and/or mistake??

Any clue will be appreciated.

Happy Penguins.

HappyTux · 08-16-2006, 11:57 AM

I'd probably uninstall that version then put a line for sid/unstable in your sources.list for just installing the jre from there and see how it works with a proper Debian package you will need non-free included in the line.

Code:

>$ apt-cache search jre
docbook-jrefentry - DocBook XML JRefEntry DTD
docbook-xsl-stylesheets-ko - Stylesheets for processing DocBook XML files to HTML and FO in korean.
wordnet-sense-index - electronic lexical database of English language
docbook-xsl - stylesheets for processing DocBook XML files to various output formats
kaffe - A JVM to run Java bytecode
ia32-sun-java5-bin - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 (32-bit)
sun-java5-bin - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0
sun-java5-fonts - Lucida TrueType fonts (from the Sun JRE)
sun-java5-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0

>$ apt-cache policy sun-java5-jre
sun-java5-jre:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.5.0-07-1
  Version table:
     1.5.0-07-1 0
        600 http://ftp2.de.debian.org sid/non-free Packages

Code:

## Unstable Sources
deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free