Trouble with Java

heathBobby · 02-01-2006, 02:59 PM

I am trying to install the J2sdk1.5 and have had very little success. Every instruction tutorial I have seen starts with

apt-get install fakeroot java-package

fakeroot installs fine. Java-package does not.
I get an error that says "Couldn't find package java-package". I looked for a couple of hours and I finally found a source file for the package but I haven't been able to complete the installation.

The steps I took to install the source:

1) Untar java-package OR java-package-0.24 OR java-package-xxx, whatever you downloaded

2) Type cd java-package-xxx

3) Rename make-jpkg to make-jpkg.out

4) Type fakeroot make install to install the java-package using fakeroot

5) I then copied the sun-j2sdk1.5 folder from the untarred archive java-package-xxx to /usr/share/java-package and placed it there.

7) In the terminal window, I just typed make-jpkg followed by the Java SDK pathname

When I go to this last step I couldn't go any further. I have no idea what the Java SDK pathname is. I have searched all over my system and nothing.
My system is a new install and nothing beyond the default web server install has been added or removed.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. I'm getting a little desperate now.

ingvildr · 02-01-2006, 03:01 PM

http://www.debian-unofficial.org/ has java packaged up as deb files just add them to your sources.list and off you go.

dastrike · 02-01-2006, 03:20 PM

See the instructions I've written: Debian Java JRE/JDK installation. I have brought up both creating a .deb from the .bin, and the way of using 3rd party repositories, and the last-resort way of installing it "manually".

The thing with java-package is that it resides in the contrib section of Debian's repositories, which is not included by default after the installation. Most instructions regarding this omit that small yet important thing, apparently assuming that the user is capable enough to figure that out.

heathBobby · 02-01-2006, 03:20 PM

I am a bit of a newbie so, I will appologize in advance for the newbie questions.

1) I searched and found two sources.list files. Which one needs to be edited?

2) What do I need to add to the file? Here is the current contents of the /etc/apt/sources.list.

---------------------------------------------------------
#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb mirrorsite/debian/ stable main
deb-src mirrorsite/debian/ stable main

deb securitymirrorsiteorg/ stable/updates main
---------------------------------------------------------

Do I just add "deb debian-unofficial/ stable main" to this file?

PS. I had to change the site addresses. It wouldn't let me post with the webaddress of another site until I have posted 5 times.

ingvildr · 02-01-2006, 03:23 PM

add this 'deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free restricted' to your /etc/apt/sources.list.

heathBobby · 02-02-2006, 09:16 AM

I added the line you (ingvildr) listed above then used 'apt-get update' but I am getting the package not found error again. Is there something else I need to do?

ingvildr · 02-02-2006, 10:06 AM

here are the java packages,

Code:

Sun J2SE 5.0 JCE 1.5.0
 [all] sun-j2se5.0-jce-binary
 
 
Sun J2SE 5.0 JDK 1.5.0.06
 [i386] sun-j2se5.0-jdk-binary
 
 
Sun J2SE 5.0 JDK Documentation 1.5.0 (English)
 [all] sun-j2se5.0-jdk-doc-en
 
 
Sun J2SE 5.0 JDK Documentation 1.5.0 (Japanese)
 [all] sun-j2se5.0-jdk-doc-ja
 
 
Sun J2SE 5.0 JRE 1.5.0.06
 [i386] sun-j2se5.0-jre-binary

heathBobby · 02-02-2006, 11:03 AM

I have been using the command 'apt-get install java-package'. Is this not the command? Do I need to use the package names you listed above (i.e. 'apt-get install sun-j2se5.0-jce-binary').

ingvildr · 02-02-2006, 11:14 AM

yes those are the packages now available to you from the debian-unofficial repo.

lestoil · 02-02-2006, 12:26 PM

Look at your sources list sarge lines they should have main contrib non-free at end. If you go thru sources lists sticky at top of this forum you can get better oriented. Dastrike's method works as well as the backport site. But be careful with number of backports used for you may get apt-get dependency errors later.
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