java5-jre and sun-java5-bin

[Michael R. Head]

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 14:21 -0500, Erik Schmidt wrote:
> yes, I'm running edgy, yes I have universe and multiverse enabled

Hmm... what platform? 
http://packages.ubuntu.com/sun-java5-bin tells me that you should be
able to find it in the multiverse for dapper, edgy, and feisty on i386
and amd64.

For powerpc, there's an ibm-java package, too.

See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java for more details.

> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 12:53 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 12:12 -0500, Erik Schmidt wrote:
> > > I recently tried to install the java JRE, it said I needed a package
> > > called sun-java5-bin
> > > 
> > > I searched for this package in synaptic package manager, it turned up
> > > nothing
> > > 
> > > how do I install these packages?
> > Are you running Edgy?
> > Do you have universe/multiverse enabled in sources.list ?
> > 
> > > 
> > > TIA
> > > 
> > > ~Erik
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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