On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 10:48 +0800, luisito Trinidad wrote:
> try do doawload the binary then you may extract it!
Yeah, I knew I could do that. However:
1. java isn't essential to me, I wanted to know if it
could be installed via the package manager.
2. long ago, i had the time to figure out how to get everything
running from source. i'm too busy now though, so my linux
usage profile is changing. if something isn't absolutely
essential, I never install from source.
3. because my linux usage profile is changing, I change
distros when my current distro can't do everything I need
it to do right now. Sometimes I'll wait one release cycle
to see if some favorite piece of software becomes supported.
If it isn't, then I switch to the distro that supports
everything I need.
4. So I won't download tar files and install them because
I want my distro to support it in the package manager.
Thanks for the pointer though. I've got it working with the
package manager. Clair Ching sent me the relevant lines from
her /etc/apt/sources.list and I used that.
Thanks all, for the pointers :-).
tiger
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