[Klug-general] This sudo thingy in Kubuntu

[George Prowse]

Mike Rentell wrote:
> A cry for help (again!). I'm fiddling with Kubuntu under VBox and it all 
> seems to work but I can get no web pages with java bits to work so I 
> have downloaded:
>
> jre-6u13-linux-i586.bin
>
> from a website but I can't get it to run and install. I've tried sudo 
> jre-6u13-linux-i586.bin but it comes back immediately and says that it 
> isn't authorised. It doesn't ask for my password which is what I thought 
> was supposed to happen with this sudo thingy.
>
> I do wish Ubuntu would allow root passwords. Can anyone enlighten me? 
> I'm obviously doing something stupid.
>
> MikeR
>   
the best way is to install it through APT:

apt-cache search jre
apt-get install <package>