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Working link for jre1.4 or any for sarge

Moiz_Lx — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:51:59 GMT

Hi,

Can any one share the link or the deb for jre1.4 for sarge.
I have googled x number of times but all most all the links are broken and lack in 4-5 packages.

can someone help me please ..

Thanks and regards,
Moiz

Re: Working link for jre1.4 or any for sarge

Matti_Kurkela — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:46:55 GMT

Since Sun's license for Java was not entirely compatible with Debian's policies, the JRE is not available directly in the Debian's package repositories.

Instead, you must download the Java JRE from Sun and create the .deb packages yourself, to comply with the letter of the license. Debian provides a tool "make-jpkg" to make this very easy.

First, install the package "java-package". It is available in the contrib/misc section of Debian package repository. It contains the "make-jpkg" tool and the documentation for it.

Then, download the standard JRE self-extracting package (.bin, not .rpm) from http://java.sun.com.

Now you can generate the .deb packages yourself with a command like
make-jpkg j2re-1_4_2-linux-i586.bin

Re: Working link for jre1.4 or any for sarge

Cedric Dupont — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:18:42 GMT

You can use the JRE package avalaible for unstable.
There is no dependencies problems.