Since the removal of Sun's J2RE...

[PaganHippie]

... any chance we'll see the inclusion of a Java VM that supports Azureus? I miss it.

[Ubunted]

The new easiest way to install Java now:

1. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

2. Download Linux self-extracting file jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin (or whatever the file is) 15.83 MB

3.

sudo apt-get install fakeroot java-package

4.

sudo fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_04-linux-i586.bin

or

sudo fakeroot make-jpkg jre-*

or

sudo fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-*

5.

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

[PaganHippie]

I'll give that a try, thanks.

[edit]

Everything seems OK until I try to make the .deb package. I get a string of error messages:

/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 285: /etc/mailcap: Permission denied
cp: cannot remove `/usr/share/pixmaps/sun-java.png': Permission denied
cp: cannot remove `/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': Permission denied
cp: cannot remove `/usr/share/icons/HighContrastInverse/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': Permission denied
cp: cannot remove `/usr/share/icons/LowContrast/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 433: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 434: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 435: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 436: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 437: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 438: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 441: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.mime: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 442: /usr/share/mime-info/java-archive.mime: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 445: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 446: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 447: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 448: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 449: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 450: /usr/share/application-registry/java-archive.applications: Permission denied
cp: cannot remove `/usr/share/pixmaps/sun-java.png': Permission denied
cp: cannot remove `/usr/share/icons/HighContrast/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': Permission denied
cp: cannot remove `/usr/share/icons/HighContrastInverse/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': Permission denied
cp: cannot remove `/usr/share/icons/LowContrast/48x48/apps/sun-java.png': Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 433: /usr/share/mime-info/java-web-start.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 434: /usr/share/mime-info/java-web-start.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 435: /usr/share/mime-info/java-web-start.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 436: /usr/share/mime-info/java-web-start.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 437: /usr/share/mime-info/java-web-start.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 438: /usr/share/mime-info/java-web-start.keys: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 441: /usr/share/mime-info/java-web-start.mime: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 442: /usr/share/mime-info/java-web-start.mime: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 445: /usr/share/application-registry/java-web-start.applications: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 446: /usr/share/application-registry/java-web-start.applications: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 447: /usr/share/application-registry/java-web-start.applications: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 448: /usr/share/application-registry/java-web-start.applications: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 449: /usr/share/application-registry/java-web-start.applications: Permission denied
/home/angus/jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin: line 450: /usr/share/application-registry/java-web-start.applications: Permission denied

Any ideas?

[Jenda]

EDIT: Ummm I'm having trouble with the deb package.

jenda@niniel:~$ fakeroot make-jpkg /home/jenda/Desktop/jre.bin
Creating temporary directory: /tmp/make-jpkg.XXXXhhhWMr
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

I don't think one was created

[Jenda]

OK - I managed in the end.

[Kyral]

Someone should look into compiling Azureus' source code (Yes you can compile Java into a binary that doesn't need the RE)

[Ubunted]

"Permission Denied" messages usually mean you're not running as root. I guess there should be a "sudo" in front of those fakeroot commands.

[darkmatter]

I guess there should be a "sudo" in front of those fakeroot commands.

Yes, there should be.

[PaganHippie]

Hmm, when I tried that it complained:

angus@Talisker:~$ sudo fakeroot make-jpkg jre-*
You are real root -- unfortunately, some Java distributions have
install scripts that directly manipulate /etc, and may cause some
inconsistencies on your system. Instead, you should become a
non-root user and run:

fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin

which will allow no damage to be done to your system files and
still permit the Java distribution to successfully extract.

Aborting.


What if I ran it from 'root terminal' & left off 'sudo' and 'fakeroot'?

[manicka]

I have azureus 2.3.0.4 (GTK version form the main site) working well with the jre 1.4 version that comes with breezy. At the first startup it complained about 1.5 not being installed. It then downlaoded some updates and has run without any error messages since. I don't really like azureus and prefer bittornado, but it seems to be working okay.