I was trying to get to a Javascript part of a webpage, which failed of course, because I have not installed Java or a Java-reader. I tried to do a manual install, but it failed, I'm not sure why except I don't really know what I'm doing (which will probably explain a lot, but not anything useful!) I then took a look around Synaptic, to see if there was anything I could install and chose some nearly-random apps that seemed to say they would run Java. I did not do any research, which was a mistake, because Synaptic did not download them. It downloaded three files and then stopped. Now I can't get it to download anything. I'm feeling very silly. I really tried to rush through this
More details:
1 I'm running Ubuntu
2 I just installed some updates earlier today, and had not used Synaptic since that time
3 I originally tried to download from Java's page
4 The file jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin downloaded to my home folder.
5 I had actually tried this once before, about a month ago, and it failed then; this was a second attempt. I'm not sure what happened. I did not get an error message.
6 The first file I tried to install from Synaptic was Rhino. I'm embarrassed to admit this, since I'm not even sure what it does, but I was playing around (ridiculously independent am I)
7 It sat there on the download dialog until it timed out (and I cancelled it)
8 I have since tried to install other packages, but get the same problem.
9 I just tried to reload Synaptic and got stuck on download 7 of 9
thanks!!!
kate
thanks for your help!!
kate