easyubuntu: so close, and yet so far...

[Peter Garrett]

On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 23:03:01 -0700
David Armour <d.f.armour at shaw.ca> wrote:

> any tips on installing java? i think i got through most of 
> the sun java install (on freebsd5.3b4) a while back, now. i know it's 
> non-trivial, which is why having a script offer to manage some of the 
> pain appeals as much as it does.

apt-cache policy sun-java5-jre

It's now in multiverse for dapper :) So is the sun-java5-jdk if you need
that.

sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre

Pretty painless now .... as in, one comand instead of much fiddling about.

Peter

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