Sunday, April 18, 2010

Installing the JDK to Debian Lenny

The first thing to keep in mind is that Debian tries with all its might to remain free and open. In that regard, it resists including proprietary packages - even popular ones - in its main repositories.

So to give debian access to everything, you need to edit your

/etc/apt/source.list

use the following command in vi to include the contrib and non-free packages in your configured repositories:

:%s/main/main contrib non-free/g

:wq

For the sake of being thorough, run

# apt-get update

then

# apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Answer in the affirmative to the various prompts.

When you're complete, adjust your alternatives like so:

#update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

et voila

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