Re: Sun/Oracle Java

Hi, Hope I didn't open a can of worms here. On 17/04/14 10:13, Scott Ferguson wrote: The "presumption" was made that the majority of readers, including the OP, would have the basic intelligence necessary to differentiate between the instructions to use "the latest java package" and an *example*

Re: Sun/Oracle Java

Hi folks, On 16/04/14 11:49, Luis Eduardo Cortes wrote: Googling I've found this article: http://d.stavrovski.net/blog/post/installing-oracle-java-7-on-debian-wheezy Hope this is helpful for you. Regards. On 16/04/14 13:34, Scott Ferguson wrote:> On Wheezy you can make a debian package of

Sun/Oracle Java

Hi, Setting up a new machine, noticed that Sun/Oracle Java is no longer available to Debian. Saw a post here with an explanation: http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u Unfortunately, there are limitations and issues with OpenJDK, and incompatib

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

Hi folks, Good read. Just want to offer my thanks for all the testing and info. Really helps a newb. Cheers, Oli -- 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/

Re: You can have any color you want - as long as it's Gnome?

Thanks for posting on this Jape. I'm new to Debian (preparing to install soon) and will likely be caught by this. Hope it's OK to ask some newby questions. I want a light weight DE, and was thinking to use XFCE (been fine on my other distros). I'm at best an intermediate level with Linux, so w

Re: Debian install including non free

Hi, On 29/12/12 21:42, Zenaan Harkness wrote: check out debmirror package also try: apt-cache search debian | egrep mirror Thanks so much for your response. I will look into it, and see what I can do. Cheers, Oliver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Debian install including non free

Hi, I would like to include non free firmware/software/docs in my initial Debian installation. I have read some information online, though am still not sure of a few things. I will make a USB flash install drive, to be used on a number of machines, including some which will never see the int