advice getting jre installed
Noah
admin2 at enabled.com
Fri Jun 30 07:21:34 UTC 2006
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:
>
> "automatix is a script that automates installation of some items and
> has been reported to break your system while doing that, please see
> http://help.ubuntu.com and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDocumentation
> instead."
>
> Suffice it to say that Sun's J2SE 5.0 Release 7 is already packaged in
> the Multiverse repository for Ubuntu. There is no need to install any
> RPM package. The only caveat is that you will need to manually
> download the jdk1.5.0-doc.zip[2] file and copy it to /tmp before
> installing the sun-java5-doc package.
>
trouble installing easyubuntu - here is the python trace:
--- snip ----
# python easyubuntu.in
System sanity check: PASSED!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "easyubuntu.in", line 51, in ?
main()
File "easyubuntu.in", line 43, in main
if detect.de() == 'gnome':
File "/home/noah/easyubuntu/EasyUbuntu/detect.py", line 78, in de
import gtk, gtk.glade
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line
45, in ?
from _gtk import *
RuntimeError: could not open display
# python -V
Python 2.4.3
---- snip --
> [1] http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/
> [2] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/index.html - Link in the upper
> right.
>
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