Simple instructions for getting Java to work on 5.10?

[Ronny Haryanto]

On Friday 13 January 2006 18:46, Xn Nooby wrote:
> I'm new to Ubuntu, so I really need instructions to be fool-proof.  The
> instructions I have found on the web do not work on a default install.
> Ideally the JRE or JDK would work with Firefox.  I need to be able to
> access a web-based java/jre financial application.
>
> Are there any instructions on how to do this, which assumes you have a
> default installation?
>
> I could not get either of these instructions to work:
>   http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~djm/ubuntu/#java
>   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

This works for me, step-by-step exactly as it says:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats#head-e2ebd70ede0e3eb2117ffbd618d2295dd1540dca

> Both say "java-package" is unknown.

java-package is in multiverse repository. Add this to 
your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu breezy multiverse

Ronny
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