On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:11:04AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > I have Sun Java1.6-se on my machine using Sun's installer.
Any reason for using it rather than openjdk that is now in Lenny? openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jdk Sun has finally released JDK. And after more than a year of hard work, the last remaining non-free bits in there have been replaced with free ones. Java can now be installed as a standard package just like perl, python, PHP, Ruby, and gcc for the languages it supports. But if you want to do extra hard work to use a non-standard copy: do it. > I have the previous OpenOffice 3 version running just fine. > > The latest-and-greatest now wants to install a Debian sunjava version. I > certainly do not need both of them and other applications that are using the > existing libraries may not even start if I blindly replace it. If you have it installed in /opt or /usr/local apt/dpkg won't run over it. OTOH, you may need to play some games to get "java" and other programs to work from the non-packaged copy. But then again, why use it? > > I think this installation should check for preexisting Java and at least > allow > me the choice, huh? apt knows about packages installed on your system. If you have anything that is not installed from a package: fine. But don't expect apt to know about it. It is not an "installer". It should also have the knowledge not to break OOo when you ask it to remove a Java (or whatever) package. I suppose that Java packages in Debian are expected to follow a number of conventions (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/ ) rather than being the mere output of the Sun installer. This allows other packages to know what to expect. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org