[RESOLVED] Re: sun-java5* install

[Derek Broughton]

John Dangler wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 00:03 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
>> During the install of sun-java5*, I got this regarding the docs...
>> 
>> Setting up sun-java5-doc (1.5.0-08-0ubuntu1) ...
>> This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the
>> J2SDK documentation.  You will need to go download one of the
>> archives:
>> 
>>     jdk-1_5_0-doc.zip jdk-1_5_0-doc-ja.zip
>> 
>> (choose the non-update version if this is the first installation).
>> Please visit
>> 
>>     http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.html
>> 
>> now and download.  The file should be owned by root.root and be copied
>> to /tmp.
>> 
>> I'm going to download the zip file, but didn't see any instructions on
>> what to do with it... does anyone know if there is a readme, install
>> script, or something of that ilk in there?
> Got it.  You download the zip, put it in /tmp, and re-run the install.
> It works.

I've been fooled by this before - that "download and copy to /tmp"
instruction seems to simple to be the whole thing :-)
-- 
derek