9.10: No java?

[Alvin]

On Friday 06 November 2009 10:11:22 O. Sinclair wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> i have been on karmic since alpha 5. and every release i use i always
> >> install the k/ubuntu-restricted-extras, which is a meta package for all
> >> restricted formats from java to flash and more. do you guys have that
> >> installed already?
> >
> > Yes, it is installed:
> >
> > $ sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-extras
> > [sudo] password for karmic1:
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > kubuntu-restricted-extras is already the newest version.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> 
> Have you managed to sort this? I got Java working in FFox and Konqueror
> by installing sun-java6-plugin but as for getting Openoffice to act (the
> wizards for letter etc) on java does not work.
> 
> Karmic, all updates

Isn't sun-java6-.. unsupported? (multiverse)

I got Java working by simply running $ sudo aptitude install default-jre
This installed openjdk-6-jre from main. Konqueror can use it and OpenOffice 
Base doesn't give me any troubles.

Is there any specific test to run in order to know if it's working well 
enough?