advice getting jre installed

[Derek Broughton]

Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> On 6/29/06, deadgobby <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>>
>> Try running Automatix. Read first before Dl and installing.
> 
> I've heard nothing but horror stories about Automatix.  I'd recommend
> EasyUbuntu[1] instead.   In fact, ubotu, the official support infobot
> of the #ubuntu IRC channel has this to say about Automatix:

Sheesh!  Why not just install the _Ubuntu_ Sun Java packages!  They're in
sun-java5-jre and sun-java5-jdk.
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derek