Need help installing java on Ubuntu 9.10 Workstation...

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Scott Beamer
<geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
> It would be much easier to install the version from the Ubuntu repository.
>
>        $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre
Agreed.... Apart from the fact it's not as upto date as the
Sun-supplied version. Karmic appears to have 1.6 update 16 as opposed
to 1.6 update 18 from Sun.

snip from apt-cache show:
Source: openjdk-6
Version: 6b16-1.6.1-1ubuntu3

The differences between update 16 and update 18 are not major, mostly
a bunch of fixes but those fixes might be important.
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