Sun Java

[Kipton Moravec]

On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 07:01 -0400, Jared Greenwald wrote:
> 
> On Apr 25, 2012 3:08 AM, "Ric Moore" <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 04/24/2012 04:02 PM, Jared Greenwald wrote:
> >>
> >> Have you tried the webupd8 java ppa?  They have a
> readily-installable
> >> version of Oracle Java 7.
> >>
> >> https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/java
> >>
> >> Just run
> >>
> >> # sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
> >> # sudo apt-get install oraclejava7-installer
> >>
> >
> > sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
> > ...is what worked for me. :) Ric
> 
> oops, ya that should do it.  musta hit send too quick...
> >

First I am really annoyed that the instructions on the Ubuntu site do
not work. 

But I am having problems with your instructions also. I copied and
pasted the lines.

kip at k5prk-ms:/usr/local$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
[sudo] password for kip: 
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring
--secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg
--trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg
--primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
--recv 7B2C3B0889BF5709A105D03AC2518248EEA14886
gpg: requesting key EEA14886 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key EEA14886: public key "Launchpad VLC" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

kip at k5prk-ms:/usr/local$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package oracle-java7-installer

O.K. now what?

Kip