advice getting jre installed

[Derek Broughton]

Christofer C. Bell wrote:

> On 6/29/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Sheesh!  Why not just install the _Ubuntu_ Sun Java packages!  They're in
>> sun-java5-jre and sun-java5-jdk.
> 
> EasyUbuntu installs those out of Multiverse for you, and presents the
> user with a number of options for multimedia support, fonts,
> compression formats, etc.  It's not unreasonable to suggest it as the
> alternative for installing Sun's Java on the system.
> 
> To continue quoting my post:
> 
> "Suffice it to say that Sun's J2SE 5.0 Release 7 is already packaged
> in the Multiverse repository for Ubuntu.  

Doh!  Sorry.  I've been caught responding to something without reading the
whole post.  Funny thing is, I had read the footnotes...
-- 
derek