java install bug?

[Mike Dugger]

Thanks for the tab/enter tip. I should have thought of trying that. I 
hope I can remember it in the future.

- Mike

D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Sunday 30 December 2007, Mike Dugger wrote:
>   
>> I think the command that the system prompted me to make was similar to that
>> but with a "-a" and a trailing "-" if I recall.
>>     
>
> The screenshot looks like an ncursed-based text installer.  Unless you have 
> some package installed and configured, text apps don't know anything about 
> your mouse, so clicking doesn't work.  You probably just had to hit tab until 
> OK was highlighted, and then press enter.
>
> For future reference.  Glad you got it working.
>
> (I've forgotten the name of the text mode mouse thing because bad things have 
> always happened to me when I set it up.  I decided I was better off without 
> it.  Gmouse?  GBA?  I guess it has its hooks in me now.  Type type type, 
> click click click...  OK.  It's GPM.  Not installed here, so I guess Ubuntu 
> Studio doesn't ship in a state that encourages that thing, and perhaps for 
> good reason.)
>
>