<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> William Gebers wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4ddec18a0907071343i1cbb2e87o5707215e068f6931@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Guys. Forgive me for asking a silly question. I am helping a friend (over email) get Ubuntu up and running on his PC. He has attempted to install Java from the Java.com website. The installation didn't encounter any errors, but does not function correctly yet. From what I remember there is a final step required to tell ubuntu where to find his installation of java, such that when you type java -version in terminal it responds appropriately. Installing java from the repositories is not an option which is why we are going this route. </pre> </blockquote> Why not ? With K/Ubuntu 9.04 simply type the following in a terminal after enabling the South African software sources. sudo aptitude install default-jdk <blockquote cite="mid:4ddec18a0907071343i1cbb2e87o5707215e068f6931@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Any suggestions? Thanks William </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>