Java Runtime Environment for warty

[Chris Peterman]

Ubuntu cannot ship with Sun JRE for legal reasons, which I don't feel
like explaining (Its the same reason why Ubuntu cannot ship with MP3
support built in)

~ Chris


On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:03 +1000, Alfred Vahau wrote:
> I am waiting for breezy CDs to arrive in which I hope it has the jre 
> packages. In the meanwhile I am using warty distro. and had recently 
> installed openoffice2.0. Certain applications of the office suite 
> require the jre installed. Does the jre package come with the warty 
> distribution? I am on a slow network and the jre for linux is over 
> 100MB. Download time is expected to be over 20 hours.
> 
> so far
> 
> aptitude search java*
> 
> has returned zero results on the installation CD.
> 
> Alfred,
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