Version 11.10

[Neil Winchurst]

Girard Henri wrote:
> Le 24/10/2011 22:43, James Cain a écrit :
>>
>>
>>
>>     >
>>     I can remember having to set up a similar link way back for Kubuntu
>>     Hardy, but in Mint it just happened automatically for me when I
>>     installed it (Mint 10 KDE).
>>
>>     Neil
>>
>>
>> Mint 10 is based on an earlier version of Ubuntu. That's why java is
>> installing there correctly for you and not in 11.10 because, as
>> already noted, Sun Java was dropped from the repositories.
>>
>> - James
>>
>>
> Exceptionnally in oneiric I use natty repos for sun-java being in
> canonical (because I noticed few months ago only sun-java worked for
> some apps) after installing i choose alternative to select sun-java.
>
>

Well, I updated the repositories and then installed the icetea 
package. Now I have Java showing as a plug-in and it works with one of 
the programs I run which requires it, (speedchecker). So I now have a 
version of java running, but not the Sun version.

By the way, how on earth was a newbie supposed to know that he needed 
to install icetea?

Thanks for the help

Neil