On 04-May-09 16:53:35, Richard Lewis wrote:
At Mon, 04 May 2009 15:47:54 +0100 (BST), (Ted Harding) wrote:
Richard: "If you add non-free to your APT repositories you should be able to install the package sun-java6-plugin. However, for etch it's only available as a backport."
Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list (broken lines indicated with "")
deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official \ Multi-architecture i386 \ /amd64/powerpc/source DVD #1 20070407-12:57]/ etch contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official \ Multi-architecture i386/amd64/powerpc/source DVD #1 \ 20070407-12:57]/ etch contrib main
Are you using the CDs at all? If not, then I'd suggest you consider commenting these lines out.
I do from time to time. I originallt installed Etch off a Linux Format CD, and sometimes when I want to install something it asks me to insert the CD, and then installs from that.
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch-cran/
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
This doesn't look quite right. I would guess that this mention of 'sarge' should read 'etch'.
I'll try changing that and see what happens.
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
So it looks as though both etch-backports and non-free are there.
However, I've long suspected that there's something not quite right about my sources.list (and I'm not clued up on how to edit it nor what really ought to be in it).
You may also want to consider changing all your sources from 'etch' to 'lenny' which is the latest stable release and choosing a nearer by mirror such as http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
As it happens, I also have a "provisional" Lenny install on another machine (again, from a recent Linux Format CD). I just started that up, initiated synaptic, and searched for "sun-java". I selected jre and the plugin to be installed, which it duly did (off the CD ... ).
Then I started up Iceweasel, and went to the Pidley Mountain Rescue Team website. This time it worked beautifully!
So Steve's experience that it didn't work despite having up-to-date Java on Debian *and* on Windows/Firefox is indeed puzzling. Unless there was a problem at the time with the web-site which has now been resolved.
In any case, do:
$ sudo aptitude update
to make it download the latest package information from your chosen mirror.
Then you should be able to install sun-java6-plugin.
If you choose to upgrade to lenny, then you should do something like:
$ sudo aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
and sacrifice a goat ;-)
My goat has just done a runner ...
Again, thanks to all for the adivice and further contributions. Ted.
Best, Richard --
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