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brjoon1021

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Registered: 2006-11-15

Posts: 9

Is Java in the repository or how do I install it?

I have never successfully installed Java in Linux unless there is a repository package or it come installed. It seems to me that the Sun instructions are missing newbie information for sure.

I have not installed Arch yet. I need to know if Java, win32 codecs, Flash, Mplayer, VLC and libdvdcss are installed or if these are easy to install from the repository, etc... I am not a Free Software Foundation guy, I want my OS to play and do everything that it can.

Thanks,

B.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Is Java in the repository or how do I install it?

Everything's in hands' reach.

pacman -S jre codecs flashplugin mplayer vlc libdvdcss
echo "voila!"

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-11-23

Posts: 450

Re: Is Java in the repository or how do I install it?

Note that the flashplugin and (the official) javaplugin for the browsers are only working under Arch 32-bit. There's open source alternatives for 64-bit, but gnash (for flash) isn't 100% compatible with all flash stuff just yet. Not sure about the current state of the open source java compilers/plugins.

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Cerebral

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Re: Is Java in the repository or how do I install it?

also, if you want to know what packages we have, the package search on the top-right corner of the main page (http://www.archlinux.org) works wonderfully. 

Flying Saxman

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From: Northern Hesse

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 252

Re: Is Java in the repository or how do I install it?

Note that the flashplugin and (the official) javaplugin for the browsers are only working under Arch 32-bit. There's open source alternatives for 64-bit, but gnash (for flash) isn't 100% compatible with all flash stuff just yet. Not sure about the current state of the open source java compilers/plugins.

Jameica still needs jre, can't run with gcj or how it is called. This is the only example I got on my PC that comes to my mind.

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