HOWTO: Building your own Java 1.5 package

[bored2k]

I have pasted this same trick numerous times already (half tired of doing it too), but now that Sun Java 1.5 is no longer available on backports I thought I'd post a HOWTO about it.

1. Download Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0
2. There, select one of these:
   
   • Download JDK 5.0 Update 5
   • Download JRE 5.0 Update 5
3. After you have reviewed and accepted the License Agreement, download Linux self-extracting file (the one with the .bin extension).
4. In sequence, execute these commands in Terminal mode (Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal):

   sudo apt-get install fakeroot java-package

5. fakeroot make-jpkg downloaded_package_name.bin

   
   * To get the name of the newly created debian package, let's do:
6. ls
   
   
   * Now to install it :
7. sudo dpkg -i newly_created_package.deb (whatever the newly Sun- DEBian package is named).

* Hoary: http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories
* Works on Breezy too.

[sumadartson]

Nice one!

This might be a stupid question, but why not just alien the rpm?

[tseliot]

Thanks for the guide, I will need it when I install Breezy.

[statsministern]

Creating temporary directory: /tmp/make-jpkg.XXXXiGwUre
Loading plugins: blackdown-j2re.sh blackdown-j2sdk.sh common.sh ibm-j2re.sh ibm-j2sdk.sh j2re.sh j2sdk-doc.sh j2sdk.sh j2se.sh sun-j2re.sh sun-j2sdk-doc.sh sun-j2sdk.sh

No matching plugin was found.
Removing temporary directory: done

What to do when you get this message after fakeroot? Running Breezy.

[manicka]

Worked perfectly here in breezy.. thankyou

[bored2k]

Nice one!

This might be a stupid question, but why not just alien the rpm?

Alien is like playing the lottery. It might work, it might not. Plus, this is the correct version of building a package for debian/ubuntu/et al.

[fire59]

Can you post your source.list? I did and apt get but it's telling me that it can't find java-package.

Other bit of info, i've just installed breezy so if you could post the source.list for breezy.

[TakisX]

the same here no package found

[bored2k]

the same here no package found

http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#extrarepositories

Retry

[NemanjaM]

bored2k, I tried following the instructions and got this far:

''nemanja@naemanija:~/Desktop/OvdeIdeSkidanje$ fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586-1.bin
Creating temporary directory: /tmp/make-jpkg.XXXXIKpSwK
Loading plugins: blackdown-j2re.sh blackdown-j2sdk.sh common.sh ibm-j2re.sh ibm-j2sdk.sh j2re.sh j2sdk.sh j2se.sh sun-j2re.sh sun-j2sdk.sh

No matching plugin was found.
Removing temporary directory: done
nemanja@naemanija:~/Desktop/OvdeIdeSkidanje$''

What should my next move be?

I am a total (ubuntu) linux newbie(a couple of days experience).