On 08/15/2012 01:29 AM, Dr Beco wrote: > Dear linuxers, > > According to this blog ( > http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u > ) > from Sylvestre, responsible for maintaining sun-java*, Java did not > renew it's license, and so, sun-java6-jre and sun-java-plugin will not > be available on Wheezy. > > The author suggests: > apt-get --purge remove sun-java6-jre && apt-get install openjdk-7-jre > in another (more recent) post. > > Unfortunately, my internet baking does not recognize openjdk. Only > sun-java seems to work. When calling technical support, the attendant > insist I should upgrade to the last sun-java plugin. There is simply > no alternatives for me. > > I managed to install sun-java after adding the old "squeeze" > repository temporarily to my sources.list. It is working now without > any problems. > > > I would like to call the attention to this problem. Please: > > 1) If possible, something like the flash plugin should be done. It > simply download the last sun-java from the original website and > installs it. (We don't need sun-java to be at the repository) > 2) If using squeeze repository is the only way we can still have > sun-java6 working, don't break this possibility on the release version > of Wheezy. > 3) If there is an easy way of creating a ".deb" package from the .tgz > on the original site, that would also be nice. Something like the > google-earth package, I believe. > > There are many solutions, so please, just take a kind look into this! > > > Thanks, > Beco > Hi Beco,
openjdk seem to be the way to go, but in case it doesn't fit you needs you can package oracle's java by your own: https://github.com/rraptorr/sun-java6 https://github.com/rraptorr/oracle-java7 Best regards, Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/502ced75.4010...@gmail.com