sun-java6

[Tim Frost]

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:09 +1300, Paul Thompson wrote:
> No it is not just you. It is so but I do not know how you would get
> Java5 now excepting directly from Sun's site.

Not true.

java 5 is in the main edgy repository.  java 6 is in the edgy-backports
repository.

So you can do
	sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre sun-java6-jre
and have both installed:



tim at marvin:~$ apt-cache policy sun-java5-jre sun-java6-jre
sun-java5-jre:
  Installed: 1.5.0-08-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.5.0-08-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.5.0-08-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://marvin.chile.gen.nz edgy/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
sun-java6-jre:
  Installed: 6-00-0ubuntu1~edgy1
  Candidate: 6-00-0ubuntu1~edgy1
  Version table:
 *** 6-00-0ubuntu1~edgy1 0
        500 http://marvin.chile.gen.nz edgy-backports/multiverse
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status



Tim

> 
> On 2/28/07, Gary Jarrel <garyjarrel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is it just me or did sun-java5 got replaced with sun-java6 in the edgy
> > repositories? If so how am I able to install the sun-java5 from the
> > repositories, rather than manually?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Gary
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