Re: Java Environment (7.04)

Dick Dowdell wrote:

> I'm fairly new to Ubuntu myself, but I'm a very old hand at Java
> development. For some reason Kaffe is distributed with Ubuntu rather than
> the Sun JDK/JRE. I've not found it a good choice.
>
> Yop can download Sun's Java JDK1.6.0_02 from Sun (http://java.sun.com) and
>
> On 7/31/07, jack <jdangler@terremark.com> wrote:

>>
>> I have 7.04 running and came across this page which details building a
>> java dev environment on ubuntu feisty...
>>
>> 
http://blogs.sun.com/coldrick/entry/java_development_on_ubuntu_part
>>
>> After d/l'ing the jdk, the author says to execute this as a normal user
>> fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6u2-linux-i586.bin

These are both very obsolete - just use the sun-java* packages from multiverse. No muss, no fuss.

Kaffe isn't actually "distributed with Ubuntu", it's just that some apps requiring Java will specify a preferential jre - like "depends kaffe | java2-runtime", and if you don't have anything else that provides "java2-runtime" you'll get kaffe. In my case, I got gcj - which is equally useless. Usually, installing a late sun-java will allow you to remove kaffe or gcj or any other lesser java without removing the packages that caused them to be installed in the first place.

-- 
derek


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