On my linux box (oneiric, 64bit) I'm running Eclipse and java straight from the Eclipse/Oracle tarballs. I'd like to install the javaHL subversion libraries, which according to the subclipse wiki are packaged in the libsvn-java package, but if I do an
apt-get install libjava-svn
apt-get will pull down all sorts of dependencies related to openjdk, which I don't really care for. I'm not that familiar with apt-get too. Is there a way around this? Can I just install the shared libraries, without all the other stuff?
download the lib-svn source package and build manually, in that case it wont download all dependecies by itself and you can avoid openjdk stuff.
Check this article on how to compile svn from sources
According to this article I can just download the deb package and extract the files in the right location. In my case that's just
and no need to tell java where to look for libraries.