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From: "David Jones" <gnome@hawaii.rr.com>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to update JRE?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:57:26 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <08f924256071873HNLMAIL3@hnlmail3.hawaii.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008301c34f49$680c0150$3400a8c0@iih.usyd.edu.au>

On 21 Jul 03, at 15:31, James Turnbull wrote:

> 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

Thanks, will look in to that.

David
gnome@hawaii.rr.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-24  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-21  2:32 How to update JRE? David Jones
2003-07-21  5:31 ` James Turnbull
2003-07-24  7:57   ` David Jones [this message]
2003-07-24  8:01 ` CaT
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-21 19:50 beolach
2003-07-21 21:14 ` Stephen Kitchener
2003-07-24  7:57   ` David Jones
2003-07-24  7:39 ` David Jones
2003-07-21 21:44 beolach
2003-07-21 22:19 ` Stephen Kitchener
2003-07-21 21:52 beolach

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