Public bug reported: Clean Ubuntu Dapper installation on my HP laptop, with full Sun-Java5 installed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dpkg -l | grep sun ii sun-java5-bin 1.5.0-06-1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 ii sun-java5-demo 1.5.0-06-1 Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 demos ii sun-java5-jdk 1.5.0-06-1 Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 ii sun-java5-jre 1.5.0-06-1 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 ii sun-java5-plugin 1.5.0-06-1 The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 5.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ apt-cache show sun-java5-jre ... Provides: java-virtual-machine, java2-runtime [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ apt-cache show tomcat5 ... Depends: kaffe (>= 2:1.1.6-3) | java-gcj-compat-dev (>= 1.0.41-1) | java2-runtime, libtomcat5-java (>= 5.0.30-9), adduser (>= 3.34), apache-utils (>= 1.3.33-1) | apache2-common [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sudo apt-get install tomcat5 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: apache2-common apache2-utils gcj-4.1-base gij-4.1 java-gcj-compat libbcel-java libcommons-beanutils-java libcommons-collections-java libcommons-collections3-java libcommons-dbcp-java libcommons-digester-java libcommons-el-java libcommons-fileupload-java libcommons-launcher-java libcommons-logging-java libcommons-modeler-java libcommons-pool-java libgcj-common libgcj7 libgcj7-jar liblog4j1.2-java libmx4j-java libregexp-java libservlet2.4-java libtomcat5-java Suggested packages: apache2-doc gcj-4.1 libgcj7-awt libbcel-java-doc libcommons-beanutils-java-doc libcommons-collections-java-doc libcommons-collections3-java-doc lib32gcj7-dbg jython libapache-mod-jk libapache2-mod-jk tomcat5-webapps tomcat5-admin Recommended packages: libgcj7-src The following NEW packages will be installed: apache2-common apache2-utils gcj-4.1-base gij-4.1 java-gcj-compat libbcel-java libcommons-beanutils-java libcommons-collections-java libcommons-collections3-java libcommons-dbcp-java libcommons-digester-java libcommons-el-java libcommons-fileupload-java libcommons-launcher-java libcommons-logging-java libcommons-modeler-java libcommons-pool-java libgcj-common libgcj7 libgcj7-jar liblog4j1.2-java libmx4j-java libregexp-java libservlet2.4-java libtomcat5-java tomcat5 0 upgraded, 26 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 21.0MB of archives. After unpacking 51.1MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. ---------------------------- If I have sun-java5-jre installed, which provides java2-runtime (as we discovered in Bug #56497), why does installing tomcat5 also install GCJ packages? ** Affects: tomcat5 (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- tomcat5 requires GCJ even though sun-java5-jre is installed https://launchpad.net/bugs/56733 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs