Already in Ubuntu's Multiverse

Posted May 17, 2006 19:20 UTC (Wed) by Burgundavia (guest, #25172)
Parent article: Java becomes more distributable

Sun Java has already been uploaded to Ubuntu's Multiverse (unsupported, non-free software)
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2006-May...

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Already in Ubuntu's Multiverse

Posted May 17, 2006 20:22 UTC (Wed) by allesfresser (guest, #216) [Link] (3 responses)

For powerpc too?

(probably not, but hope springs eternal...)

Already in Ubuntu's Multiverse

Posted May 17, 2006 21:01 UTC (Wed) by kmccarty (subscriber, #12085) [Link] (2 responses)

Not if the Java .debs in Ubuntu come from the same source as those in Debian - the packages are only for AMD64 and x86. (There is also a package for Itanium but it depends on that processor's x86 emulation capability.)

Since there is also a package of source code available, it's conceivable someone might compile it for other architectures, but I'm not sure that Debian or Ubuntu would be allowed to distribute the result.

Already in Ubuntu's Multiverse

Posted May 18, 2006 22:21 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (guest, #216) [Link] (1 responses)

Unfortunately that aforementioned package of source code is somewhat less than portable:

~ $ tar zxf sun-java5_1.5.0-06.orig.tar.gz
sun-java5-1.5.0-06/
sun-java5-1.5.0-06/jdk-1_5_0_06-distro-linux-amd64.bin
sun-java5-1.5.0-06/jdk-1_5_0_06-distro-linux-i586.bin

Already in Ubuntu's Multiverse

Posted May 19, 2006 2:15 UTC (Fri) by kmccarty (subscriber, #12085) [Link]

The source code isn't in the "source package" (orig.tar.gz + diff.gz), it's in the "binary package" (.deb) called sun-java5-source, confusingly enough.