where to get sun-java5-jdk, and java incompatibilities

[Robert P. J. Day]

  quite possibly an android question but i'll start here and move to
the appropriate android ML if it gets ugly.

  trying to follow the instructions here:

http://source.android.com/source/download.html

to download and build android on 64-bit ubuntu 10.04, and the
instructions do make it clear that i need java 1.5.  that's certainly
true as trying to do the build with openjdk-6-jdk installed whines
that:

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You are attempting to build with the incorrect version
of java.

Your version is: java version "1.6.0_18".
The correct version is: 1.5.

Please follow the machine setup instructions at
    http://source.android.com/download
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  ok, ok ... except that the instructions suggesting apt-getting
sun-java5-jdk, which doesn't seem to be in the normal repos (while
sun-java6-jdk is).

  so, while i hate regressing in my choice of java, is there a quick
fix i can make to /etc/apt/sources.list to make sun-java5-jdk
available?  or, better yet, do i really need to regress based on what
that page warns about -- that java 6 is incompatible with something
called "@Override" (whatever that is).

  as a devil-may-care test, i can always just rip out the java version
test from the Makefile and see how far i get before something
explodes. :-)

rday

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