Need help installing java on Ubuntu 9.10 Workstation...

[Ian Coetzee]

On 2010/03/04 04:00 PM, Frank Gallacher wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10, complete with Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3 
> (Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical 1.0)
> I am trying to install Java, and have downloaded a self-extracting 
> archive "jre-6u18-linux-i586.bin".
> The install instructions say I need to be logged on as "root".
> But the password I used when I installed Ubuntu only works when I do a 
> sudo;
> doing a "su -" or logging onto a virtual terminal as "root" gives an 
> "authentication failure"...
>
> How do I log in as root, and install Java???
>
> TIA, fcG.
Have you tried using sudo to run it?

In a GUI environment you can use gksu to run the installer.

Regards
Ian