Awesome...sun to release Java under GPL!

[Thomas Charron]

  I've actually not tried in the last few years.  I was burnt more then once
by the situation where things would install dozens of JDKs that all worked
marginally.

  Thomas

On 11/13/06, Neil Joseph Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 13 November 2006 11:20 am, Thomas Charron wrote:
> >   Finally!  Debian best get that bad boy in their repositories ASAP,
> before
> > I do my next install that will require Java.  ;-)
> >
> >   Thomas
>
> Debian makes it surprisingly easy to install Java already. Install the
> package
> called java-package.  It includes a script that basically takes as input
> the
> binary tarball that Sun has on their site and compiles it into a .deb
> package
> that is easily installable onto your system.  Before now, this has been
> their
> way of letting people make their own Sun java packages easily since they
> couldn't distribute it.
> -N
>
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