2008 Apr 24 - Thu
Installing Sun Java on Debian Lenny
Back in October last year, I mentioned how to get Sun Java installed in
preparation for Eclipse. The rules have changed a bit.
You still need to put 'non-free' at the end of teh deb and deb-src lines in
/etc/apt/sources.list. The secret to get the new flavour, which happens to be 1.6, is
'apt-get install sun-java6-jre' or 'apt-get install sun-java5-jre'.
Also, by default, Debian installs some other runtimes that seem to not work very well
with eclipse. So to select the proper one, which was installed with the command in the
previous paragraph, use 'update-alternatives --config java'.
On opening Eclipse/CDT, you may get an 'error opening the view', or some similar error
regarding opening a view. The configuration above
will make that error message go away.
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