[Tfug] sun java + apt-get tomcat?

[John Gruenenfelder]

Ammon,

My first suggestion was going to be the equivs package, but it seems you
have already run across it.  Perhaps there is bettee documentation for it
on the Net somewhere?

Or, as Nathan suggests, you could try rolling your own.  In Debian, the
package is called java-package and will debify the Sun tarballs for you.  I
used to use it in the past and it was quite easy.  But, that was some time
ago and I do not know if it is still working or available for Ubuntu.

Is using the OpenJDK entirely out of the question in this case?  I have not
yet, personally, run into any issues working with it... but I haven't used
it much with Tomcat either.  Do they not play well together?

-- John Gruenenfelder
On Nov 2, 2011 12:46 PM, "Ammon Lauritzen" <allaryin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Howdy. I've got a puzzle that's starting to get on my nerves ;)
>
> Current builds of Ubuntu no longer provide sun-java6 packages (yay
> licensing garbage).
>
> I am deploying tomcat servers via Ubuntu and have to target Sun Java
> (can't run OpenJDK in production).
>
> This wouldn't be much of a problem as I can just download the binary from
> Oracle and run alternatives to manage symlinks just fine. I can run java
> applications with an up-to-date jre without any problems. However,
> alternatives does not do enough. Ie, dpkg doesn't recognize the existence
> of /usr/bin/java as the same thing as java-common being installed.
>
> So... once I install java manually, I can't use apt-get to install tomcat.
>
> My options appear to be:
> 1 - Continue using older java packages until Ubuntu removes them from the
> archive (and acknowledge that I'm running old libraries in production).
> 2 - Give up on apt-get entirely and manage tomcat by hand as well.
> 3 - Fake it.
>
> I've never done much voodoo with package management. It appears that there
> is an old equivs package that creates fake debs for this sort of case, but
> the documentation is remarkably unhelpful.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> --
> Ammon Lauritzen
>
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