advice getting jre installed

[Chanchao]

> Sheesh!  Why not just install the _Ubuntu_ Sun Java packages!  They're in
> sun-java5-jre and sun-java5-jdk.

Indeed... absolutely NO NEED to go back to this prehistoric 
pre-Ubuntu-era practice of fiddling around with rpms, dependencies..

... that's just SO un-Ubuntu. :)

Just click System->Administration->Synaptic and search for the "sun-" 
stuff.  Select, Apply, Be Happy.

Cheers,
Chanchao