On Thursday 01 September 2005 07:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I used java-package along with Sun's Java 5. Instructions here: > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/142 > > Great article! That works for me. Thanks for your help. > > Returning to my original question of free Debian Java packages, > I think this quote from the article above summarizes the situation: > > "Whilst there [are] a growing number of open Java environments > at times installing Sun Java environment is the pragmatic > approach. . . ."
Sun recently made another noise about opensourcing Java sometime in the future. I sure won't hold my breath. If they'd only loosened up enough to allow a real deb package to be constructed I'd be happy. Andy (ex-Sun Java Division)