Installing Blackdown's Java Runtime Environnement (JRE) on Debian

Introduction

Java is not free and its distribution restrictions are such that it is not even possible to have a package included into non-free of Debian.

Blackdown is a project that provides Sun's Java environment to several distributions.

A mirror is available and maintained by Easynet [1] and Belgacom

Add the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb ftp://ftp.easynet.be/blackdown/debian woody main non-free

Then, launch, as root [2]:

apt-get update
apt-get install j2re1.3

Add the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian/ sarge non-free

Then, launch, as root:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install j2re1.4

This procedure is identical to Sarge's one. Add the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian/ sarge non-free

Then, launch, as root:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install j2re1.4

It will install at the same time Java support for Mozilla and all navigators based on Gecko engine like Galeon, Firefox, Epiphany, …

For Konqueror [3], install also package konqueror-nsplugins.

If you did not use Debian packages, please read INSTALL-j2re to configure browsers.

[1] Attention, as of March 10th 2005, Easynet mirror was outdated !

[2] to install the JDK, just replace j2re1.3 with j2sdk1.3

[3] but just starting from KDE 3.x