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No Java in the repositories and I can’t find a .deb-package, so I have to try again an other way than I would like. The first step is to download the self-extracting Linux x64 RPM from the Sun Java Download page. After the download, you must give the extractor executing rights by

chmod u+x jre-1_5_0_09-linux-amd64-rpm.bin

Now run the executable and accept the license, after that it will extract the rpm-File and will fail to run rpm with the message:

./jre-1_5_0_09-linux-amd64-rpm.bin: 644: rpm: not found

or

rpm: To install rpm packages on Debian systems, use alien. See README.Debian.

Fehler: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No such file or directory (2)

Fehler: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

If you get the first error you have to install alien, the other one shows us that we are on a Debain system. Now we could proceed in converting our package from rpm to deb and install it.

sudo alien -d –scripts jre-1_5_0_09-linux-amd64.rpm

sudo dpkg -i jre_1.5.0_09-1_amd64.deb

Because java is not in a ordinary binary-directory, we add it to the search-path by appending the following line to the ~/.bashrc:

export PATH=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_09/bin:$PATH

To test the new Java installation, I’ll try FreeMind using the .deb-Files from the sf.net-Page, so that we fully care about dpkg & Co. For Freemind you need some packages which are luckily available in universe, so that we just install them and after that FreeMind

sudo apt-get install librelaxng-datatype-java libcommons-lang-java libcommons-codec-java

sudo dpkg -i freemind_0.8.0+01-4_all.deb freemind-plugins-help_0.8.0+01-4_all.deb freemind-plugins-time_0.8.0+01-4_all.deb libforms-java_1.0.5-3_all.deb libjcalendar-java_1.2.2-7_all.deb

And finally it works!!!!

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