Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU! - hijacked from: Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu

[Colin Law]

On 29 May 2010 14:00, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>...
> karl at Lucid:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
> [sudo] password for karl:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package sun-java6-jre is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> E: Package sun-java6-jre has no installation candidate
> karl at Lucid:~$
>
>     This does not work on my 10.04

It works ok for me.  Have you enabled the Partner repository?

Colin