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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial><SPAN
class=908275215-29092009>As Glyn suggested, make sure you have the Multiverse
repository enabled. Here's a guide for Hardy, I expect the process is similar on
later versions:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=908275215-29092009><A
href="http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-enable-the-universe-and-multiverse-repositories-in-ubuntu-804-hardy.html">http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-enable-the-universe-and-multiverse-repositories-in-ubuntu-804-hardy.html</A></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial><SPAN class=908275215-29092009>If you still
have trouble, please can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file and a
directory listing of your /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory. For
example:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=908275215-29092009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial><SPAN class=908275215-29092009>egrep
'^#*\s*deb' /etc/apt/sources.list</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial><SPAN class=908275215-29092009>ls -shp1
/etc/apt/sources.list.d</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial><SPAN
class=908275215-29092009></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial><SPAN class=908275215-29092009>(the egrep
command above strips out the human-readable paragraphs of comments; we just want
to know the deb lines, even if they're commented out; the ls command lists files
one-per-line using shortened syntax instead of the full -l
detail)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"
align=left><STRONG>Andrew Oakley<BR>Head of Software
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> malvern-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:malvern-bounces@mailman.lug.org.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>William
Chaundy<BR><B>Sent:</B> 28 September 2009 10:40<BR><B>To:</B> Malvern Linux
Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Malvern] java in ubuntu<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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Glyn<BR><BR>I have tried this and only got the response below:<BR><BR>sudo
aptitude install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin<BR>Password:<BR>Reading
package lists... Done<BR>Building dependency
tree <BR>Reading state information...
Done<BR>Initialising package states... Done<BR>Building tag database...
Done <BR>Couldn't find any package whose name or
description matched "sun-java6-jre"<BR>Couldn't find any package whose name or
description matched "sun-java6-plugin"<BR>No packages will be installed,
upgraded, or removed.<BR>0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove
and 0 not upgraded.<BR>Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be
used.<BR><BR>Exactly the same when I put in:<BR><BR>sudo aptitude install
sun-java5-jre sun-java5-plugin<BR><BR>Any ideas!<BR><BR>William<BR><BR>>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:38:02 +0100<BR>> From: glynd@walmore.com<BR>>
To: willchaundy@hotmail.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [Malvern] java in
ubuntu<BR>> <BR>> William Chaundy wrote:<BR>> > I found 'sudo
aptitude install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin' and <BR>> > then
instead of 6 I tried 5. Still did not work. The message below is <BR>> >
what came next:<BR>> ><BR>> This
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java) suggests you have to <BR>> install
the sun-java6-bin package.<BR>> <BR>> Seen also<BR>>
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-java-runtime-environment-jre-in-ubuntu.html<BR>>
<BR>> You do have the multiverse repository enabled don't you?<BR>>
<BR>> <BR>> -- <BR>> Best Regards<BR>> Glyn Davies<BR>>
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