Trey’s Blog|brain spillage!

If you’ve just installed Hoary and you need to install Java for running Azureus, then you’ll find that most instructions on the Internet aren’t working for you. I spent several hours trying and testing many different suggestions, but thanks to Sun, Java installation went from easy to difficult. Appartently successful installations and missing dependencies are many things you’ll run across.

This post seems to have the answer. Essentially, you’ll download the self-extracting Linux file (.bin) from Sun, and create a .deb file using tools on your system. All of this takes place in your home directory. After that, you install as root using dpkg like any other .deb file, and amazingly everything works great.

I was able to install Azureus and everything has worked out. There will be peace in the world again.

Annoying error (fixed by this method):
depends on sun-j2sdk1.5debian