Installing Java on Ubuntu and Debian

Ubuntu:

• Step 1: Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list :

deb http://mirror.cscf/ubuntu/  uwaterloo/

• Step 2: apt-get install sun-j2skd1.5 or run synaptic and install that package.

Debian:

• Step 1: Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list :

deb http://mirror.cscf/ uwaterloo/

• Step 2: apt-get install sun-j2skd1.5 or run synaptic and install that package.

Old version:

sarge only

I mirrored the blackdown.org stuff from ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ to debian30 into uwaterloo/blackdown_java. Current version is 1.4.2.

Add the following line:

deb ftp://mirror.debian.math.uwaterloo.ca/ uwaterloo/blackdown_java/

-- MikePatterson - 07 Jan 2005

From this week's Debian World news:

Supporting free Java in Debian. Michael Koch [12]considered the free
Java implementations in good shape to run major applications and asked
for more users to work with them and report bugs. He has gotten the
impression that many people prefer to use non-free implementations
instead of reporting back problems with the free packages. For better
support people should give [13]Kaffe, [14]SableVM or [15]JamVM or any
of the other free JVM Implementations in Debian a try.

 12. http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2005/01/msg00081.html
 13. http://packages.debian.org/kaffe
 14. http://packages.debian.org/sablevm
 15. http://packages.debian.org/jamvm

-- MikePatterson - 12 Jan 2005

See also TomcatSetup. -- IlguizLatypov - 29 Aug 2007