Need help installing java on Ubuntu 9.10 Workstation...

[Karl F. Larsen]

Frank Gallacher wrote, On 03/04/2010 07:00 AM:
> 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.
>
>
	Been a while but think I used something like this:

	$ sudo ./jre-6u18-linux-i586.bin to load it. I think you 
might need the -i686 version as well.


73 Karl



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