Appendix A. Appendix

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Installing IBM's JDK on Debian Linux

Installing IBM's JDK on Debian Linux

  1. Make sure that fakeroot and java-package are installed:

    # apt-get install fakeroot java-package
  2. Download the .tgz version of the JDK from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux/download.html.

  3. Edit /usr/share/java-package/ibm-j2sdk.sh and (if necessary) add an entry for the particular version of the IBM JDK downloaded in the previous step.

  4. Build a Debian package from the tarball:

    $ fakeroot make-jpkg xxxx.tgz
  5. Install the Debian package.