I'm trying to install the new java 1.5. I used to have j2re1.4 installed from deb http://jopa.studentenweb.org/debian ./ Since this is getting quite old I'm trying to get the latest working.
I uninstalled this version and am trying to get a .deb from 1.5 by using the instructions from: man make-jpkg. I installed (apt-get install java-package) and downloaded jdk-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin from Sun. According to the man page I need to issue make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin and a .deb should be created. All that happends for me is:

So, what's this plugin stuff? It isn't noticed in the man page and neither can I find anything online about this. Could this have anything to do with left overs from the previous j2re1.4 install? (apt-get removed only j2re1.4 if I remember correctly it installed quite some dependencies, don't I need to get rid of them aswell?) Or do I need to install something before make-jpkg?

Regards

According to:

solution

5. Create the Java deb package

Then create the deb package of the Sun's Java installer by using make-jpkg In this example the Java 1.5.0 JRE is used.

fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin

Regarding Java 1.5.0

At the time of this writing (2004-10-10) the java-package doesn't yet handle the Java 1.5.0, so you need to apply a patch I created in order for make-jpkg to be able to handle it if you get an error message that says No matching plugin was found when executing the above command.

1. Download the patch (works with version 0.14 of java-package)
2. Extract the gzipped tar archive by executing

tar zxvf patch-java-package_0.14.tar.gz

3. Then change directory into the directory that was created

cd patch-java-package

4. If you are not as root, become root by executing

su

5. Now execute the script that does the patching

./patch-java-package.sh

Example output of the patching script:

About to patch the files /usr/share/java-package/sun-j2re.sh and
/usr/share/java-package/sun-j2sdk.sh so that make-jpkg supports
the Java 1.5.0 JRE/SDK
Do you want to proceed? [y/N] y
patching file /usr/share/java-package/sun-j2re.sh
patching file /usr/share/java-package/sun-j2sdk.sh
The files have been patched successfully.

After this patching the make-jpkg can handle the Java 1.5.0 JRE and SDK fine.

Hmmm, perhaps I'm getting there. I'll let you know if it worked (for all who's interested)

Well, it's done!

Just a summary:

Apt-get install java-package
download the java-package patch (needed to compile 1.5) :

patch by: tim (at) serios.net

And issue:

$ tar zxvf patch-java-package_0.14.tar.gz
$ cd patch-java-package
$./patch-java-package.sh

download Sun's Java JDK:

Download J2SE 5.0 JDK or JRE

Make sure you download the .bin file not the .rpm!

Enter the dir you downloaded the .bin
Time to make the .deb

$ make-jpkg jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin
$ dpkg -i sun-j2re1.5_1.5.0_i386.deb (or the file that you have depending on JDK or JRE)

You now could get an error about dependencies

use $ apt-get install sun-j2re1.5debian

if this doesn't fix it use $ apt-get -f install

All should be done by now, check it: $ java -version
You should be looking at something like this:

java version "1.5.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-b64)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-b64, mixed mode, sharing)

The full howto and help for setting up browser plugin (and more) at:

Java: Sun's JRE/SDK Installation on Debian

powadha,

plz can you mail me the java-package patch because the site serios.net is down............. My mail address is meet.parikh@indiatimes.com

thanks

I take it you didn't notice that this thread is 6 yrs old?

And all you need to do to install java is apt-get install sun-java6-plugin