2002-Nov-06

Working on adding java support for Galeon. Currently, it says:

This page contains information of a type (application/x-java-vm) that
can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in.

So I added to my /etc/apt/sources.list:

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

"apt-get update" added a new file to /var/lib/apt/lists/. (Also tried to retrieve a "release" list which didn't exist; so it put an empty file in /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/.)

Then did "apt-get install j2sdk1.3" which failed because needed j2re1.3 (1.3.1.02b-2). But it needed j2se-common which didn't exist. I read some postings and then added "main" to the sources.list

Then I installed j2re1.3, j2sdk1.3, j2se-common, and java-common (this one from debian.org collection).

The Sun license was displayed to the console and I agreed by typing "yes" then another "Binary Code License Agreement" and I agreed to it too. This package installation setup links for /etc/alternatives/javaplugin.so, /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji-mozilla-cvs.so, and /etc/alternatives/javaplugin_oji.so.

I did:

ln -s /etc/alternatives/javaplugin.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/javaplugin.so

(javaplugin_oji.so was already linked in there.)

Made pkgsrc for sysvinit. Made pkgsrc for sysklogd. Made pkgsrc for file. (By the way, this is NetBSD's file(1).) Made pkgsrc for ged, the GNU ed(1). (This gnu ed appears to have same manpage as old BSD ed. No copyright or license with the manual page.)

Started making pkgsrc for man, but its configure and makefiles are a mess. I think I will look at man-db instead. (Based on same orginal code, but now a lot different.) I don't want to waste time with lots of patching!