Re: Java use: problem with LaTeXDraw

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 20 Dec 2009 04:09:24 -0500
Message-ID:
<hgkpk5$laj$1@news.albasani.net>
Merciadri Luca wrote:

I encounter these messages:


After what command?

error: Failed dependencies:
    /bin/basename is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/cat is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/cp is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/gawk is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/grep is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/ln is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/ls is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/mkdir is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/mv is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/pwd is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/rm is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/sed is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/sort is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/touch is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /usr/bin/cut is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /usr/bin/dirname is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /usr/bin/expr is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /usr/bin/find is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /usr/bin/tail is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /usr/bin/tr is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /usr/bin/wc is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586
    /bin/sh is needed by jre-1.6.0_17-fcs.i586

Done.

Normal?


Nope.

At the installation of the *rpm.bin, evidently. I was su, and it seems


I thought Debian didn't use RPMs. Anyway, sometimes when you "su" you lose
PATH information and other envars due to not picking profiles and other .*rc
files.

that it cannot find the basic binary utilities. However, the output
.rpm is 47.8 MB, and is thus not empty...


Using Ubuntu, which, like Debian, uses APT for package management, I don't
download the RPM but the other Linux installation file that is not RPM based.
  It's essentially a self-extracting compressed file in a .bin file which
expands to a Java directory tree. I then copy the tree to wherever I put Java
directory trees (under /opt/java/, in my case). I'm pretty sure RPMs don't
work in Ubuntu, but maybe Debian is different.

The Java installed by the Ubuntu APT mechanism is OpenJDK version 6 and it
seems pretty stable and complete.

--
Lew

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