Hi! I'm new to UBUNTU! - hijacked from: Goodbye Linux/Ubuntu

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/28/2010 08:04 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/28/2010 05:43 PM, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
>    
>> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:19,<calcpage at aol.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>> Anyway, I tell you all this by way of introduction so you can
>>> understand our situation.  We do have a little problem.  We use a lot
>>> of java enabled sites like www.javawide.org, www.sagenb.org and
>>> www.screencast-o-matic.com so jre support in a browser is very
>>> important to us.  I cannot seem to get Firefox to install the jre,
>>> however.  Is there some trick to this?  Also, I tried to apt-get
>>> install something simple like bzflag-server and nothing happened.  Do I
>>> have to update the repository addresses somehow?
>>>        
>> Try:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
>>      
karl at Lucid:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin
[sudo] password for karl:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package sun-java6-jre is not available, but is referred to by another 
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package sun-java6-jre has no installation candidate
karl at Lucid:~$

     This does not work on my 10.04





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