1) From my tribulations with JDK, I do believe jdk-common and jdk-static depend on each other. Thus, neither can be installed.
2) When I forced the issue, I got an error similar to the one Joey Hess reported earlier with 1.0.2.2: Whenever I try to run any of the java stuff, like appletviewer, javac, etc, I get this error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/prog/old/java>javac DragItem.java java was not found in /usr/lib/jdk/i586/bin/java Sincerely Paul Serice -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]