java

[Matthew Flaschen]

Erik Schmidt wrote:
> I know I've asked this before, but I lost the answer
> 
> how do I install java on my machine running ubuntu 6.10
> 
> I seem to remember that teh package name has somethng to do with
> "sun-java5", but when I do a search for "sun-java5" in synaptic package
> manager, I get only things that cannot be installed due to unresolved
> dependencies.  when I search for the package that the sun-java5 package
> seems to be dependant on, I get nothing
> 
> I know universal and that other thing are turned on

Depends what "that other thing" is.  Sun Java is non-free, so you would
need to enable multiverse.  Then, the runtime package is sun-java5-bin .

However, I recommend using GCJ, a libre implementation, instead.
Install java-gcj-compat-plugin and you should get everything you need.

Matthew Flaschen

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