Ubuntu Breeze 5.10 - - Java JDK/JRE/J2EE

Halsafar · 2005-12-19T07:26:27

Okay apparently Breezy comes with some funky GNU version of java 1.4... Forget that... I need to get the most up to date JDK, JRE and J2EE and it is proving to be A TON harder than on other distro's. I've installed Java on Fedora and Mandriva several times just using the RPM. The lack of RPM's in Ubuntu is terrible... I cannot even really relay my problem... See I'm either stuck with a self-installation RPM which Ubuntu cannot use (it wants a deb file). Or I'm stuck with a self-extracting bin file, which extracts fine but leaves me no way to install the thing... I am following the instructions here but I get stuck at installing the java-packages via apt-get... Even with all the repositories added it still says "E: Couldn't find package java-packages" Instructions: http://www.redtailcanyon.com/items/1467517.aspx

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Started by Halsafar December 15, 2005 12:51 PM

9 comments, last by Halsafar 18 years, 9 months ago

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December 19, 2005 07:26 AM

Well after doing a lot of reading, the 'proper' way to install SUN's JAVA on Ubuntu is to use make-jpkg to convert them to deb. This also ensures the environmental paths end up all correct with no intervention. This is why the make-jpkg package is available.

The only package I have to install manually like you explained is J2EE.