How to Install Java?

[alikhurshid]

Hey...i am new to debian and i am trying to install java in debian but cant...Please Help....

[dotlj]

First, some questions that will help us to help you.

Which version of Debian?
32 bit / 64 bit computer?

What did you try?

Look at the wiki - http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto#Jav ... RE.29AMD64

[nadir]

i did it that way:
a)
i made sure my repositories contain contrib and non-free like here
(its only bout contrib; non-free, dont replace lenny by sid or the country-code;
just make sure contrib and non-free is at the end of your existing line !) :

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deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

b)
i ran apt-get update
c)

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apt-get install sun-java6-jre
apt-get install sun-java6-plugin

d)
i checked if it did work here:
http://www.java.com/de/download/help/testvm.xml

it did work without further actions.
might be you prefer doing it from synaptic.

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the better option might be using the free version:

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apt-get install openjdk-6-jre
apt-get install icedtea6-plugin

(in this case better is not only better=free, but better= of a better quality. i couldn`t get it running, though i did run update-alternatives***, not sure why.
wait if someone might give you a hand with that)

[alikhurshid]

E: Malformed line 13 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

i have this problem and i want to install jvm on my debian version 4 stable.i edited my source.list file which every time makes a new sources.list~.without updating the link mentioned in sources.list.
plz help me.

[craigevil]

E: Malformed line 13 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
E: The list of sources could not be read.

i have this problem and i want to install jvm on my debian version 4 stable.i edited my source.list file which every time makes a new sources.list~.without updating the link mentioned in sources.list.
plz help me.

Please paste your /etc/apt/sources.list

Also keep in mind that support for Etch ends some time next month, so you may want to start thinking about updating to Lenny.

[alikhurshid]

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20080803-20:48]/ etch contrib main



# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/non-free


deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20080803-20:48]/ etch contrib main







this is my sources.list file.

[nadir]

line 13 is this one:

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deb http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/non-free

malform is this -> etch/non-free ||| which should be -> etch non-free
either remove the whole line, as its an double entry, or, if you need that line from the german ftp-site for any reason, correct it:

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deb http://ftp.de.debian.org etch non-free

greetings