On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:28:20PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > > > For those ignorant people like me: Could you please post the URL / > > > sources.list > > > entry to get a recent JRE 1.4.x ? I never realized that there is > > > something except > > > of Blackdown and the packages there are not up to date. > > > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/index.jsp > Yes - and my question was: Are there any Debian-packages from this which > handle alternatives etc nicely?
They had to be build first, right ? > > The reason for us to use j2re1.4 from sun and not blackdown, is that > > the version from sun does work with woody _and_ mozilla. > Yes - there are even more issues which can force you to this non-free > stuff, unfortunately. :-( Well, Blackdown is also non-free. Java is not Open Source, and I guess it never will be ... > > I'm in the process of downloading right now, and will try to build > > later tonight. > Does mean "build" = "build inofficial Debian packages and make them > available anywhere in public"? Yes. They will end up in our woody local apt source, and there will be a DESA around. I guess the package now has ended up in our woody-test apt-source, but you may fetch it from deb http://ftp.skolelinux.no/ ~finnarne/mozilla/ deb-src http://ftp.skolelinux.no/ ~finnarne/mozilla/ Please test, and report back at bugs.skolelinux.no #802 -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/
