advice getting jre installed

[Colin Bell]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:15:31AM -0700, Noah wrote:
> # apt-get install sun-java5-jre*
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package sun-java5-jre*
> 
> 
$ aptitude show sun-java5-jre | grep Section
Section: multiverse/libs

You need to enable the multiverse repository.