Sun Java installation issues

[NoOp]

On 10/09/2008 05:36 PM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Glenn Holmer wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 12:51 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
>>> > Having said all that, it ought to be way easier for the average person
>>> > to upgrade Java on a Linux box...
>>>  
>>> Certainly.  Install any java package from the Ubuntu package repository,
>>> and they _should_ run update-java-alternatives themselves (last I
>>> checked, the sun-java packages, at least, didn't - but that's a packaging
>>> bug).
>> 
>> So what does the average user do, rebuild the package?
> 
> No, just manually run update-java-alternatives after installing the package.

You'll find that that doesn't fix the 'java --version" issue if the sun
java package isn't already installed from the Ubuntu repo.