On 10/26/2013 08:05 AM, Joachim Zobel wrote: > Hi. > > There are none in wheezy, are there any outside of debian? ubuntu? > oracle? > > (I found I can reduce complexity of my netbeans patch if I go straight > for openjdk-7-jdk instead of java7-jdk). Hi, make-jpkg in the java-package package allows a user to download a JDK from Oracle and build a .deb from it. The provides line for the most recent JDK is: Provides: java-browser-plugin, java-compiler, java-runtime, java-runtime-headless, java-sdk, java-virtual-machine, java2-compiler, java2-runtime, java2-runtime-headless, java2-sdk, java5-runtime, java5-runtime-headless, java5-sdk, java6-runtime, java6-runtime-headless, java6-sdk, java7-runtime, java7-runtime-headless, java7-sdk So you'll note that the provides is for java7-sdk (not java7-jdk). The JDK gets installed into /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-7-oracle-x64/ Note that I'm not saying you should or must support this, only that it's not uncommon for users to install the JDK in this manner. Ideally everyone would use the JDK packaged within Debian, but it doesn't work out that way for a variety of reasons. (And FWIW, it is getting better. Java5 was quite complicated in this regard.) Hope that helps. tony
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