David Liontooth wrote:
Sun distributes a version of java for amd64 at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp and it works great.
Cheers, David
cd /usr/local /<download>/jre-1_5_0-rc-linux-amd64.bin
vi /etc/profile add /usr/local/jre1.5.0/bin
Only problem is it doesn't include a java plugin for mozilla. Blackdown's new 1.4.2 build includes the plugins.
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/JDK-1.4.2/amd64/rc1/
-Peter