Installing jdk?

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 10/21/2010 07:32 PM, Calcpage wrote:
> Hello Fine LUG Members,
> 
> I just had a server crash and burn after running 24x7 for 10 years in  
> the middle of my Computer Science class.  So, as a temporary fix, I  
> took a Student Station that already had the 64bit Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop  
> Edition running and quickly installed openssh-server and setup new ssh  
> logins.
> 
> Then I find that jdk is not installed  So, I tried installing  
> openjdk-6-jdk only to get an error message about the file was not found.
> 
> Then I went ubuntu.packages.com to search for this file and was  
> directed to secure.ubuntu.com/ubuntu to the directory pool/main/o/ 
> openjdk but the file would not download.
> 
> So, what am I doing wrong?  Please help!

What happens when you try to install the meta package "default-jdk" from
apt-get? Just post the entire output of:

apt-get install default-jdk