Java Runtime Environment for warty

Alfred Vahau Alf.Vahau at upng.ac.pg
Tue Nov 1 05:46:11 UTC 2005


Thanks Chris for pointing this out.

Alfred


Chris Peterman wrote:

>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)
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>~ Chris
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>On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:03 +1000, Alfred Vahau wrote:
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>>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.
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>>so far
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>>aptitude search java*
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>>has returned zero results on the installation CD.
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>>Alfred,
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