JDK 6 Available...now when is a deb coming?

[rekahsoft]

I have installed the .bin from Sun's web site to /usr/lib/jvm and edited /etc/jvm and added the directory of jdk 6 to the file. I am also going to creat links to java and javac in /usr/bin. I find that jdk 6 in much faster and looks much better with gtk LAF. The only problem is that i don't know how to get gtk LAF in netbeans. I have tried this:

netbeans --laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel

but or some reason Netbeans looks very ugly when i comes up. If anybody knows how to get netbeans to use gtk LAF lt me know. Thanks.

[Hendrixski]

Making the official .deb:

sudo apt-get install java-common
sudo apt-get install fakeroot
fakeroot make-jpkg path/to/jdk6.bin

It's that simple? you pass fakeroot the address to the .bin file and it converts the .bin to a .deb? Does that work for all binaries? like... Google earth for example?

Then how do you submit that .deb to the folks Debian & Canonical to put it into repositories?

[rekahsoft]

Making the official .deb:

sudo apt-get install java-common
sudo apt-get install fakeroot
fakeroot make-jpkg path/to/jdk6.bin

wow...i will try this a little later today and see how it works. Thanks

[mlind]

Making the official .deb:

sudo apt-get install java-common
sudo apt-get install fakeroot
fakeroot make-jpkg path/to/jdk6.bin

I though java-package doesn't support mustang yet..

[mlind]

Well it doesn't seem to. I'll attach a debdiff to get sun-java6 support for java-package.


To get current java-package, you must add multiverse source repository in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty multiverse

Then patch and build java-package

mkdir /tmp/java-package
cd /tmp/java-package
apt-get source java-package
cd java-package-0.28
patch -p1 < /path/to/java-package_sun-java6.patch

sudo aptitude install debhelper
debian/rules binary
sudo dpkg -i ../java-package_0.28ubuntu1_all.deb

Build java6 binaries

sudo aptitude install fakeroot
fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6-linux-i586.bin

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I forgot to attach already patched .deb
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patch was missing j2re install and remove scripts

[Ben Sprinkle]

Guys it does work, but I think only for Java. It parses the .bin, finds depend's, and puts it into a .deb.

Taylor, who has joined here, has done it many times.
But it was done for JDK 1.6.0_10, not sure bout 6.

[rekahsoft]

Well it doesn't seem to. I'll attach a debdiff to get sun-java6 support for java-package.


To get current java-package, you must add multiverse source repository in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted universe multiverse

Then patch and build java-package

mkdir /tmp/java-package
cd /tmp/java-package
apt-get source java-package
cd java-package-0.28
patch -p1 < /path/to/java-package_sun-java6.patch

sudo aptitude install debhelper
debian/rules binary
sudo dpkg -i ../java-package_0.28ubuntu1_all.deb

Build java6 binaries

sudo aptitude install fakeroot
fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6-linux-i586.bin

/edit
I forgot to attach already patched .deb

awesome i got it working does anybody know how to enable gtk LAF for netbeans?

[samjh]

The only problem is that i don't know how to get gtk LAF in netbeans. I have tried this:

netbeans --laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel

but or some reason Netbeans looks very ugly when i comes up. If anybody knows how to get netbeans to use gtk LAF lt me know. Thanks.

Your code should work. It worked for me, using JRE 1.5.0_10 and 1.6.0. The LAF using 1.5 looked very ugly. 1.6 looked a lot prettier, but some components were still not good looking.

I have a feeling that the Netbeans developers didn't really test Netbeans thoroughly using the GTK LAF.

In Windows XP, the XP LAF works perfectly fine (it's actually the default LAF). It's so good that if you didn't know anything about Netbeans, you could be forgiven for mistaking it as a native Windows app. But in Linux, the default LAF is the fully cross-platform Metal LAF, which seems to indicate that Netbeans is not really intended to be used with the GTK LAF, even in Gnome environments.

[rekahsoft]

Your code should work. It worked for me, using JRE 1.5.0_10 and 1.6.0. The LAF using 1.5 looked very ugly. 1.6 looked a lot prettier, but some components were still not good looking.

I have a feeling that the Netbeans developers didn't really test Netbeans thoroughly using the GTK LAF.

In Windows XP, the XP LAF works perfectly fine (it's actually the default LAF). It's so good that if you didn't know anything about Netbeans, you could be forgiven for mistaking it as a native Windows app. But in Linux, the default LAF is the fully cross-platform Metal LAF, which seems to indicate that Netbeans is not really intended to be used with the GTK LAF, even in Gnome environments.

i got it looking sexy not but like you said, some components are messed.

[acerlinux]

Well it doesn't seem to. I'll attach a debdiff to get sun-java6 support for java-package.


To get current java-package, you must add multiverse source repository in /etc/apt/sources.list

deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty main restricted universe multiverse

Then patch and build java-package

mkdir /tmp/java-package
cd /tmp/java-package
apt-get source java-package
cd java-package-0.28
patch -p1 < /path/to/java-package_sun-java6.patch

sudo aptitude install debhelper
debian/rules binary
sudo dpkg -i ../java-package_0.28ubuntu1_all.deb

Build java6 binaries

sudo aptitude install fakeroot
fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-6-linux-i586.bin

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I forgot to attach already patched .deb

do you mind to attach the patched java-package.deb please. that's should be great.