How to install JAVA via aptitude?

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One of the open source web crawlers (Heritrix) requires Java to run. I have to install this on my CENTOS via the command line (aptitude). How?

Quick note: The standard package manager for CentOS is YUM. Aptitude is a package manager for Debian and Ubuntu Linux or more generally, DEB-based Linux distributions, in contrast to RPM-based distributions like CentOS. — joschi, Oct 08 '09 at 21:11

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 12 '10 at 21:14

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Here is a list of good HOWTOs for Java on Centos.

BTW, CentOS' package manager is called yum. It generally works like aptitude, like

yum search $packagename yum install $packagename yum remove $packagename yum check-update yum upgrade

edited Sep 12 '10 at 21:14

Zoredache

answered Oct 08 '09 at 21:34

PEra

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