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News: Ubuntu Users Get Java Surprise

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 10 comments
LinuxPlanet; By Brian Proffitt
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Sun Microsystems has partnered with Canonical to release a complete Java stack for Ubuntu users. The stack is made up from Sun's J2EE offering GlassFish, Java SE (JDK 6), Derby-based Java DB 10.2, and the NetBeans IDE 5.5. While Java components have been around for quite some time, this will be the first time users will be able to be able to easily download and install this stack. They're all just an apt-get command away.

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So, does anybody know if you can install the packages on Debian?
Most likely. Try it and report back to us :D
> Try it and report back to us :D

If I had a Debian machine around to test on, I would. :( One of these days I've got to get around to setting up a virtual Debian machine. Hmm, maybe I'll have some free time this weekend....
Somebody got a link to the buntu equivelent of testing and I'll try it. Sorry jdixion, just being lazy :D
> ...just being lazy :D

If we weren't lazy we wouldn't have gotten into computers. It beats working for a living. :)

I've downloaded the 4.0 netinstall disk and I'll try to setup a VMware virtual machine with Debian this weekend. We'll see how that goes. Maybe even do an LXer writeup if there's enough to bother with. Unfortunately, I expect it to be: insert disk, start virtual machine, accept defaults, reboot into Debian. Not a very exciting thing to writeup. :(
Quoting:So, does anybody know if you can install the packages on Debian?


No need.

jezuch@zx-spectrum-1:~$ apt-cache policy sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jre: Zainstalowana: 6-00-2 Kandydująca: 6-00-2 Tabela wersji: *** 6-00-2 0 990 http://ftp.pl.debian.org testing/non-free Packages 500 http://ftp.pl.debian.org unstable/non-free Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

In non-free, but still "just an apt-get away".
That's the runtime environment. From the article:

The stack is made up from Sun's J2EE offering GlassFish, Java SE (JDK 6), Derby-based Java DB 10.2, and the NetBeans IDE 5.5.

That's a bit more than the runtime environment.

Editted typo. :(
>Somebody got a link to the buntu equivelent of testing and I'll try it. Sorry jdixion, just being lazy :D

That would be:

"deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main universe multiverse restricted" if the article is correct. I checked http://nl.archive.ubunru.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/s/ but I didn't see a sun-j2ee, sun-lookingglass, etcetera. There's a j2se package though.
yea, it's in debian.

there's also this : #414535 - sun-java6-jre: Java GUI programs don't work because "Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed."

sun-java6-jre(1 bug)
Quoting:That's the runtime environment.


Yes, sorry, I failed to notice the rest :)

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