Re: Java in Debian 5

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:31:27AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote:

If you choose to use Java programs, you'll obviously need Java for them.
But Debian doesn't come with anything that requires a Java interpreter
out of the box, so no, you can happily run Debian 5.0 without Java.

If you install the desktop task you also get OpenOffice.org that depends
on a Java JRE.

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