Not a bash, just the facts

[Chanchao]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 14:12 +0100, Loïc Martin wrote:

> I think I must be having visions or we're talking about to different 
> things. For me, installing Sun's has always been faster on Ubuntu than 
> on Windows : open Synaptic, do a search for "java" (name and 
> description) then install j2re1.4 and the j2re that also has in the name 
> "mozilla-plugin". Then just accept the license agreement that pops up.

Does that really work?  Why do the wiki instructions include so many
terminal commands then?   (I'm not doubting you, just wondering why the
RestrictedFormats wiki page doens't just explain it as clearly as you
just did?)

Cheers,
Chanchao