Java on ubuntu

[Harry L. Lee]

not safe?

On 5/2/06, Constantine Evans <cevans at costinet.org> wrote:
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> Don't use Automatix - it is not safe (at least it wasn't the last time I
> checked). Even it it were safe, it would be too much for your situation.
> I believe all you need to do in this case is to make the correct
> symbolic link from /usr/local/something to /usr/share/firefox/plugins,
> which is probably documented in the jre package somewhere.
>
> Constantine
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> Alfred Vahau wrote:
> > Thank you. I haven't tried this alternative way of installation so how
> > do I get to start?
> >
> > Alfred Vahau
> >
> > Harry L. Lee wrote:
> >
> >> the easy way on breezy would be to let Automatix do it.
> >>
> >> On 5/2/06, Alfred Vahau <Alf.Vahau at upng.ac.pg
> >> <mailto:Alf.Vahau at upng.ac.pg>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     I wanted to build my own class files so I downloaded the jdk and
> >>     jre from the sun site and installed them under /usr/local.
> >>     I included the correct path in /etc/profile and set up the correct
> >>     environment for Java. No problems.
> >>     But I cannot execute any of the applets under the demo directory
> >>     in Firefox. It is looking for a plug-in.
> >>     I think installation by non-Ubuntu way, i.e not using the apt-get
> >>     install is causing this problem.
> >>     How do I get my Breezy system to deal with my manually installed
> >>     Java files..
> >>
> >>     Alfred Vahau
> >>
> >>
> >>     Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> >>
> >>> Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> How do I install java on my ubuntu 5.10 i386?
> >>>>
> >>> sudo apt-get install j2sdk1.4
> >>>
> >>> Make sure you have universe and multiverse repos enabled.
> >>>
> >>> Greetings,
> >>>     Reinhard
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> >> Harry L Lee (via gmail)
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