From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "James Turnbull" Subject: Re: How to update JRE? Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:31:58 +1000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <008301c34f49$680c0150$3400a8c0@iih.usyd.edu.au> References: <0a9130032021573HNLMAIL1@hnlmail1.hawaii.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Jones , linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org David Jones wrote: > I have a *very recently updated* (like installed and > completely apt-getted and updated and such like 10 > days ago) Debian. It came with a JRE identifying itself > as 1.4.1, build Blackdown-1.4.1-01. I've been informed > by the author of a certain Java program that I like (at the > moment, not the author, just the program!) to go the Sun > JRE link on his web site and download that version - > which, according to the target of the link on his web > page, is version 1.4.1 ... anyway, how does one update > a JRE on Linux? I've only done it on WIndows and OS/2 > (both via an executable that you download and run). At the Sun Site http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html there is a .bin file available to download. Here are instructions for unpacking .bin files: http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2329 Regards James Turnbull - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs