Hello i am trying ti install java in debian 3.1 but i am meeting a few probs along the way i have been following instructions from this site b
http://serios.net/content/debian/java/
anyway firstly i am told to get java do this " apt-get install j2re1.4"
the feedback is
Aries:~# apt-get install j2re1.4
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
j2re1.4: Depends: java-common but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
so i tried this to get the problem with java-common fixed.
Aries:~# apt-get build-dep java-common
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
Aries:~#
so now i am wandering what sources i should be adding to my sources list to fix the problem if any one knows what the source fix is i would love to know.
thanks nige