Re: sudo apt-get install sun-j2rel.5

[Bob Proulx]

Rafael Gerdin wrote:
> I've tride this and it simply does not work...

Did you send this to the wrong mailing list?  You appear to have a
Debian user question but have sent it to the bug-coreutils mailing
list.  This mailing list is for discussion of the GNU coreutils.  You
probably meant to send your question to address@hidden
Your question does not seem to be related in any way to coreutils.

> address@hidden:/home/rage # sudo apt-get install sun-j2rel.5
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package sun-j2rel.5
> 
> please reply if you know what I'm doing wrong

This is off-topic for this list.  But I can't resist so apologies in
advance to the regular list members.

At a low level you are trying to install something which does not
exist in any of the depots pointed to by your /etc/apt/sources.list
entries.  The package does not exist as far as your APT knows.  You
would get the same result if you tried to install any package that did
not exist.  If you are interested in packages that are related to java
that are known to APT try the following command.

  apt-cache search java virtual machine
  apt-cache search java compiler

By default the sources.list file will contain only free sources.  But
Sun Java is not a free software project.  There is no sun-j2re in
Debian.  Both kaffe and gcc's gcj are free Java replacements and are
in Debian.  The sun-j2re1.5 to which you refer is created using the
java-package from non-free sources acquired directly from Sun.

For any further Debian specific questions please post to the
debian-user list.

Hope that helps
Bob