From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Jones" Subject: Re: How to update JRE? Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 21:57:26 -1000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <08f924256071873HNLMAIL3@hnlmail3.hawaii.rr.com> References: <008301c34f49$680c0150$3400a8c0@iih.usyd.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <008301c34f49$680c0150$3400a8c0@iih.usyd.edu.au> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - 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