Java - Sun or other? Prefer less bugs & more stable.

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/14/2010 06:25 AM, Janne Jokitalo wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 06:16:58AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>    
>>           I am looking for a java I can apt-get and perhaps there is
>> none. I tried this
>>
>> arl at Lucid:~$ sudo apt-get install java
>> [sudo] password for karl:
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> E: Couldn't find package java
>> karl at Lucid:~$ sudo apt-get install openjdk
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> E: Couldn't find package openjdk
>>      
> $ apt-cache search java
>
> HTH.
>
>
>    
         Many thanks! :-!

     That apt-cache search java worked too good.  I had to use $ 
apt-cache search java | more. I used the indicated  apt-get install 
default-jre and it is bring in many packages and I should be all java 
now on 10.04


73 Karl


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