Aaron Maxwell muttered: > On Tuesday 14 August 2001 09:48, Paul Mackinney wrote: > > Question: dselect wants to install something to give me Java VM to go > > with jikes (e.g., kaffe, jdk1.1). Should I just override this and > > install jikes by itself? Is there a graceful way to tell dselect that > > Java VM is already installed? > > The easiest way may be to install one of the dummy packages: > > shiznit[2]% apt-cache search java|grep dummy > java-compiler-dummy - Dummy Java compiler > java-virtual-machine-dummy - Dummy Java virtual machine > > These packages don't install any new software, they just satisfy > dependencies. They were made for exactly the situation you are facing. > > Try 'apt-get install java-virtual-machine-dummy'. I expect this will > sate jike's longing for a JVM on your system. > > Let us know how it works - > Aaron I had already installed jikes with kaffe (the most benign provider of java VM) but after installing java-virtual-machine-dummy I was able to apt-get remove kaffe without deinstalling jikes.
As always, _thanks_ for the specific apt-cache search example! Paul -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- Please note new email address
