[ALUG] Re: Odd behaviour in OO - Java??

[Peter Alcibiades]

>How did you install Sun Java? If you didn't, then I'd suggest you try using 
>Debian's java-package tool like this:

># apt-get install java-package fakeroot
>$ fakeroot make-jpkg name-of-downloaded-java-binary.bin
># dpkg -i name-of-created-package.deb

>(note that the middle step has to be done as a non-root user; and that 
>java-package is in contrib)

>This may put the JRE in a location where OOo can find it.


OK, tried that - many thanks - it seemed to install sun's amd64 java ok.  But 
still not recognised by 00, and hasn't fixed it. It declined to install the 
586 version.  I still cannot manage to point OO at a jre that it will 
acknowledge.

It can't be, surely, that the Debian packagers of OO would have let it go out 
with something as basic as this not working?

Peter