[Malvern] java in ubuntu

[Chris Eilbeck]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 04:47:22PM +0000, William Chaundy wrote:
> 
> I found 'sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin' and then instead of 6 I tried 5. Still did not work. The message below is what came next:
> 
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> Initialising package states... Done
> Building tag database... Done      
> Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "sun-java5-jre"
> Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "sun-java5-plugin"
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> 
> Any ideas, plus I am still on edgy and I have tried upgrading to fiesty still won't let me.
> 
> Any new ideas

apt-cache search sun-java

and see what packages it tells you there are.  You may have to enable
restricted or non-free repositories in your /etc/apt/sources.list to be able
to get what you want.

Chris
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