circular dependencies in aptitude?

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OK, I'm trying to install Ubuntu 10.04 64bit for my students on 25 
dual-core AMD Athlons in my classroom/pc lab.  Until my tech guy 
unblocks the *.bz2 file extension, apt-get or aptitude is broken (no 
updates or upgrades).  So, I'm trying to install a few packages I need 
by hand from http://packages.debian.org

I was successful with a few packages.  But now I am stuck getting 
sun-java6-plugin, sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-fonts to work.  They all 
depend on java-common so I installed that.  Now, I try sun-java6-jre 
and it depends on sun-java-bin and that depends on sun-java-jre, huh?  
Is there some way around this?

We use several online java apps in class such as http://www.sagenb.org 
for 3D plotting in Multivariate Calculus and http://www.javawide.org in 
Computer Science and http://screencast-o-matic.com to record classes 
for youtube.  So, as you can see, I really need this plugin to work in 
Firefox....

BTW, otherwise, everything works like a charm.  This is by far the best 
64bit distro I have tried!

HTH,
A. Jorge Garcia
http://shadowfaxrant.blogspot.com

Teacher & Professor
Applied Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science
Baldwin Senior High School & Nassau Community College