Need help installing java on Ubuntu 9.10 Workstation...

[Johnneylee Rollins]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Trincle <yinguanhao at gmail.com> wrote:
>>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???
>
> Maybe, you can use
>
> $ sudo su
>
> Or, use
>
> $ sudo passwd
>
> to set a password for root, then su or log in as root.
>
>
> But, I'm  wondering, whether
>
> $ sudo /path/to/jre-6u18-linux-i586.bin
>
> work?

Or you could just use sudo, or even sudo -i to stick with the whole
root deal until you're done and then just exit.

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