Installing Java on x86 ReadyNAS

Posted: October 2, 2010

Here’s a step by step guide to installing Java from the official Debian Etch repository.

Java 5

Step 1) Add the non-free repository to /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian etch non-free

Step 2) Run apt-get update

Step 3) Before installing java, we need to make a small update: Sun (Oracle) force you to accept a license when installing Java, but there is no way to do this when installing via apt-get, which causes the install to fail. So we need to setup the acceptance beforehand. To do this create a text file with the contents:

sun-java5-jdk shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 select true
sun-java5-jre shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 select true
sun-java6-jdk shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 select true
sun-java6-jre shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 select true

Then run:

/usr/bin/debconf-set-selections

Step 4) Install

apt-get install sun-java5-jre

Java 6

Step 1) Add the following repository to the file /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-backports etch-backports main contrib non-free

Step 2) Update apt

apt-get update

Step 3) Install Java

apt-get install sun-java6-jre