Need help installing java on Ubuntu 9.10 Workstation...

[Scott Beamer]

Frank Gallacher spake thusly:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have just installed Ubuntu 9.10, complete with Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3
> (Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu canonical 1.0) I am trying to install Java,
> and have downloaded a self-extracting archive "jre-6u18-linux-i586.bin".

It would be much easier to install the version from the Ubuntu repository.

	$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre