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[edit] Java on Debian

• On any of these methods you may have to quit all Mozilla apps and then delete the ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat file.

• You may also need to run

# update-alternatives --all

[edit] Automatic method

Sun made java available so the install is now quite easy if you are not running AMD64. (looks much the same for java6)

You need to add non-free repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file - something like:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib

If you want to install Java plugin for the browser:

wajig install sun-java5-plugin

If you want to install JRE:

#wajig install sun-java5-jre

If you want to install JDK:

wajig install sun-java5-jdk 

If you want to install Java documentation, install this package and follow the instructions:

wajig install sun-java5-doc

If you wan to install some fonts:

wajig install sun-java5-fonts

If you want to install some demos for the JDK:

wajig install sun-java5-demo

After you have installed everything you want, you need to make sure that Sun java is the default Java runtime environment:

update-java-alternatives –set java-1.5.0-sun

More on wajig

[edit] AMD64 java

[edit] AMD64 java via icedtea

### java icedTea
deb  http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/ubuntu/ gutsy/ 

and go here to test

http://www.java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml

I get Java installed (1.7.0).

I sent in a wnpp bug for 'request to package' on Debian, but don't see it listed?

[edit] AMD64 via blackdown java

Add the following to sources.list  :

#blackdown java
deb   http://www.tux.org/pub/packages/java/debian/  etch non-free  

install the keys

wget   http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/gpg.asc  | apt-key add  

Now install wajig (wajig is a sane and unified command line interface for dpkg and apt)

apt-get install wajig

wajig update
wajig install j2re1.4 j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin

[edit] AMD64 sun-java news

According to a post on April/9/2008 at

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4802695

We have not only commit this RFE to JRE 7, but also JRE 6 update release.

The date for JRE 6 update release which has this 64bit JRE support will be early 2009.
Posted Date : 2008-04-09 16:57:04.0 

[edit] Manual method

The following information is for reference only - probabaly not the way you should do it with todays systems. These instructions last updated 5/2007 for iceweasel (Debian version of firefox)
First, download java from
[https://sdlc3e.sun.com/ECom/EComActionServlet/DownloadPage:~:com.sun.sunit.sdlc.content.DownloadPageInfo Navigating Sun's site is about the worst part. You want to get the J2SE(TM) Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 10 (6 won't work at this writing 5/2007)

Down-Load the install package to your home directory.

Do the following

su -
wajig install java-common
chmod u+x jre*
cd /usr/local/lib                                                                                    
/root/jre-1_5_0-linux-i586.bin
cd /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/


ln -s /usr/local/lib/jre1.5.0_10/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so .

You may have to quit all Mozilla apps and then delete the ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat file.