03-19-06 04:47 PM
"rogo" <arpcdp@hotmail.com> writes:
> I want to install tomcat 5.5 on Debian sarge 3.1. I have been trying to
> "apt-get install java-package/testing" but i get the message that the
> testing release of java-package could not be found. Can someone point
> me in a direction to get a java-package > 0.24 version. 0.24 gives me a
> "no plugins" error when trying to install jdk-1.5.0 which seems to be a
> known problem.
>
> I have been trying all the sources in this source.list including those
> commented out:
[snip]
> #deb http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ testing main
> #deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ testing main
>
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main
> deb-src http://ftp.no.debian.org/debian/ testing main
You need to add a "contrib" section by appending the word to the end of
one of these lines, e.g.:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib
% apt-cache show java-package
Package: java-package
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/misc
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