Installing the Ice-3.5 packages from ZeroC on Debian

WARNING: This recipe is unnecessary in an current Debian jessie or Ubuntu trusty.

ZeroC provides their own Ubuntu/Debian packages for the version 3.5. This recipe includes all steps for a successful installation.

Some new features (like the icegrid-gui metric graphics) requires JavaFX, that is only available in the Oracle Java SDK.

Important: If you have debian, you need the repositories of testing flavor (codename: jessie) or newer.

Important: If you have ubuntu, you need the repositories of the Raring Ringtail release (or newer).

To install it, execute:

$ sudo su
# echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8-java.list
# apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EEA14886
# apt-get update
# apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
# apt-get install oracle-java7-set-default

To install Ice packages, execute:

$ sudo su
# wget http://www.zeroc.com/download/Ice/3.5/ubuntu/ice3.5-raring.list -O- > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ice3.5-raring.list
# wget http://www.zeroc.com/download/RPM-GPG-KEY-zeroc-release -O- | apt-key add -
# apt-get update
# apt-get install ice ice-dev

Or just run this script

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