advice getting jre installed

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Sat Jul 1 11:54:58 UTC 2006


hi,
Am Freitag, den 30.06.2006, 10:54 -0500 schrieb Christofer C. Bell:
> On 6/30/06, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> there is absolutely no need to do anything else than either installing
> > sun-java5-jre or sun-java5-jdk from multiverse, they contain the
> > original sun java, no need for additional downloads zip files or the
> > like.
> 
> You are mistaken, Oliver.  You *do* need to put the jdk1.5.0-doc.zip
> file in /tmp *if* you plan to install the sun-java5-doc package.  The
> documenation is not licensed for redistribution so the sun-java5-doc
> package simply takes the zip file you have already downloaded and
> "packages" it locally for installation with dpkg.
right i was missing the point that you talked about documentation
packages, i was referring only to get java running which indeed only
needs either of sun-java5-jre or sun-java5-jdk from multiverse, sorry
for causing confusion and is the right answer to the subject of this
thread.

ciao
	oli
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