advice getting jre installed

Dick Davies rasputnik at gmail.com
Fri Jun 30 07:29:41 UTC 2006


You need to enable the multiverse repos.


On 30/06/06, Noah <admin2 at enabled.com> wrote:
>
>  Derek Broughton wrote:

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

>  okay how do I find them and install them?

You need to enable the multiverse repo. Just add it to your existing
ones in /etc/apt/sources.list. Mine says:

deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main
restricted universe multiverse

(all one line)

then

sudo apt-get update



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