Question Of The Day: Sun Java On Debian 4.0
Now that I've switched to Debian 4.0, I'm interested in getting the Sun Java 6 packages installed. If I recall correctly, there was quite a stir during JavaOne when the Ubuntu folks announced that some of Sun's Java products (the JDK, NetBeans and Glassfish) are available in their apt repositories and can be installed with a simple apt-get command.
I also remember someone mentioning that one can apt-get the same packages from Debian. But I did not save the link at the time. And now I can't find it. Searching for "Debian Sun JDK" on the Google yields many hits that are old news now (they were written prior to Sun open sourced their Java). They usually outline the thirteen steps that one has to get through to get the Sun JDK installed.
About the only thing that's relevant is this blurb from NewInEtch page on Debian Wiki:
NewInEtch: Sun Java 5.0 - sun-java5-bin, sun-java5-demo, sun-java5-doc, sun-java5-fonts, sun-java5-jdk, sun-java5-jre, sun-java5-plugin, sun-java5-source (non-free)
So my question today is simply this: What is the Debian way of installing Sun's Java 6 JDK?
[Update] This link seem to contain the most up-to-date information.
Re: Question Of The Day: Sun Java On Debian 4.0
Wouldn't the simplest thing be to just install Ubuntu :-). It's not a totally irrelevant concept for me, since I'm in the middle of replacing Debian with Ubuntu on all of my home computers -- primarily because of the overall ease of administration.
That being said, Ubuntu uses apt-get under the covers, so it should just be a matter of adding the Ubuntu "multiverse" and "universe" respositories to the list of places that your apt-get looks for updates.
Re: Question Of The Day: Sun Java On Debian 4.0
> Wouldn't the simplest thing be to just install Ubuntu :-).
Not really. That would require me to go through the whole "download a DVD, install the OS, and then figure out how to get Sun Java the Ubuntu way" process. With Debian 4.0, I know I'm only a couple of commands away from getting the Sun Java packages and I just have to learn the magic incantation.