Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU!

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:19,  <calcpage at aol.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I tell you all this by way of introduction so you can
> understand our situation.  We do have a little problem.  We use a lot
> of java enabled sites like www.javawide.org, www.sagenb.org and
> www.screencast-o-matic.com so jre support in a browser is very
> important to us.  I cannot seem to get Firefox to install the jre,
> however.  Is there some trick to this?  Also, I tried to apt-get
> install something simple like bzflag-server and nothing happened.  Do I
> have to update the repository addresses somehow?

Try:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

that should work

cheers
L.