advice getting jre installed

[Noah]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Christofer C. Bell wrote:
>
>   
>> On 6/29/06, deadgobby <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>>     
>>> Try running Automatix. Read first before Dl and installing.
>>>       
>> I've heard nothing but horror stories about Automatix.  I'd recommend
>> EasyUbuntu[1] instead.   In fact, ubotu, the official support infobot
>> of the #ubuntu IRC channel has this to say about Automatix:
>>     
>
> Sheesh!  Why not just install the _Ubuntu_ Sun Java packages!  They're in
> sun-java5-jre and sun-java5-jdk.
>   
okay how do I find them and install them?

# apt-get install sun-java5-jre*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package sun-java5-jre*


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