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Howto install Oracle Java on Debian

Posted 03-10-2012 at 02:47 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 07-15-2021 at 06:44 PM by craigevil (added wiki page)

Tags debian, firefox, java, oracle, plugin

Please see The Debian wiki Java page: https://wiki.debian.org/Java
Basically ignore this entire article and see https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html
https://adoptopenjdk.net/installation.html#linux-pkg

This post is outdated, Do NOT use it
Steps for Oracle Java 6

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Version 1.6.x (a.k.a Java 6 Update x)
NOTE: Java 6 is scheduled to die (End of Life or EOL) in November 2012
As of April 27, 2012 the latest version of Java 6 is 1.6.0_32

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Grokking Debian GNU/Linux

Posted 08-06-2010 at 02:58 AM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 02-08-2021 at 09:08 PM by craigevil (added link)

Tags aptitude, debian, gdebi, packages, synaptic

Before asking here or on the <debian-user> mailing list, you should read the Installation Guide,
or if you already have Debian installed, the Debian Reference.
Also take the time to read:
Linux is NOT Windows : http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
What we expect you have already Done. : http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=47078

Please read "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" - http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html...

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Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the World Wide Web

Posted 06-30-2010 at 01:55 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 08-29-2021 at 07:51 PM by craigevil (updated urls)

Tags debian, google, searching, surfraw

Are you tired of clicking the search box in Firefox to do searches or changing the search engine. Then surfraw is definitely for you. Get rid of the searchbox and use Surfraw.

Surfraw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Surfraw (Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Against the WWW) is a free POSIX-compliant (ie. meant for Linux, FreeBSD etc.) command-line shell program for interfacing with a number of web-based search engines. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License and written

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REAL Firefox on Debian

Posted 06-29-2010 at 07:11 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 02-20-2021 at 05:07 AM by craigevil

Tags debian, firefox, iceweasel

Firefox has been back in Debian for a while.
Please see the Debian wiki Firefox page https://wiki.debian.org/Firefox
No Real Reason to follow this guide, it is way past outdated

This is all I do to use Firefox rather than Iceweasel.
1) download Firefox
2) extract to my /home/Downloads
3) symlink plugins by doing:

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins /home/craig/Downloads/firefox/plugins

4) open iceweasel with iceweasel -profilemanager and...

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Irssi the irc client that rocks

Posted 06-26-2010 at 05:42 PM by craigevil (craigevil's random words of wisdom)
Updated 06-14-2021 at 10:41 PM by craigevil (fixed links/Added Libera)

Tags bitlbee, debian, irc, irssi, twitter

Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for GNU/Linux systems.

Even the dpkg bot in #debian agrees irssi rocks:
<dpkg> i guess irssi is the best <IRC> client ever. "aptitude install irssi" and read http://www.irssi.org/documentation/startup . See also http://irssi.org/documentation/faq. http://www.irssi.org/

Lots of fun and useful irssi scripts/themes:
web::irssi::scripts - http://scripts.irssi.org/
irssi Themes - http://www.irssi.org/themes...

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