Need help installing java on Ubuntu 9.10 Workstation...

[Avi Greenbury]

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".

Is there a reason to not use the one in the repositories? If not, I'd
advise using them to keep updates easy. You can install the Java plugin
through the command line by running
	sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin
which is what you'd need for java applets in your browser, and the Java
runtime by running
	sudo apt-get install default-jre
which is the package you appear to have downloaded above.

> The install instructions say I need to be logged on as "root".

Running a command with 'sudo' on the beginning of it is equivalent to
running the command as root.

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Avi Greenbury