On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:26:22PM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: > A number of recent packages in debian-amd64 depend variously on > j2sdk1.5 (eg freewatch) and j2re1.4 (eg freemind) or java2-runtime (both), > which are not available from the mirrors. I've installed Sun's now > fully released jre-1_5_0-linux-amd64.bin. How do I tell these packages > that java2-runtime is present? Force override? Java is in my path. > > Cheers, > Dave
You want to use the equivs package to create packages that provide the java stuff. Search google for 'debian java equivs' and you'll get several sets of instructions. -- Steve Feehan
