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http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DebianJava.html
Installing most things on Debian is sinfully easy: apt-get install package-name. Sadly Java is an exception since it's not in the basic debian system. I recently downloaded and installed java 1.5 or 5, or whatever they're calling it these days on my Debian Sid desktop. In brief the procedure is.
# apt-get install mpkg-j2se fakeroot download the sun jdk from java.sun.com $ fakeroot /usr/bin/mpkg-j2se j2re-1_4_2_05-linux-i586.bin # dpkg -i sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0_i386.deb # apt-get install sun-j2sdk1.5debian # update-alternatives --config java
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