Simple instructions for getting Java to work on 5.10?

[Bry Melvin]

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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:46:51 -0500
From: Xn Nooby <xnooby at gmail.com>
Subject: Simple instructions for getting Java to work on 5.10?
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I'm new to Ubuntu, so I really need instructions to be fool-proof.  The
instructions I have found on the web do not work on a default install.
Ideally the JRE or JDK would work with Firefox.  I need to be able to 
access
a web-based java/jre financial application.

Are there any instructions on how to do this, which assumes you have a
default installation?

I could not get either of these instructions to work:
  http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~djm/ubuntu/#java
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

Both say "java-package" is unknown.

thanks

enable the optional repositories
(not sure which one it's in)
apt-get install j2re1.4    and j2re1.4-mozilla-plugin
 or use synaptic 
a simpler alternative to building packages for 1.5

1.42 works here on several banks on ubuntu and eComstation.
for that matter the banks all seem to work on IBM Java 1.31!

Bryann


 
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