[Bug 55701] Re: Installing linux-image-2.6-686 (or 2.6-686-smp) prevents installation of sun-java5-* packages

[Andy Piper]

The java-sun5-* packages are both popular and have been available for
quite some time, so I doubt that this is a case of "missing packages":
The following forum post was only a few hours old when I had the
problem.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=229306#post1337950

Before doing the manual install I tried modifying my /etc/sources.list
file to point to numerous other repositories to see if it was a case of
the  packages being missing from the repository I was using, and got
consistent results. Also, the gnome-app-install tool consistently listed
the Java Sun package, but didn't let me select it for installation -
sorry, I should have stated this in my initial submission.

Also, if the packages were missing how could I have got hold of them to
manually install them?

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Installing linux-image-2.6-686 (or 2.6-686-smp) prevents installation of sun-java5-* packages
https://launchpad.net/bugs/55701