david@xdavid:~$ dpkg -l java*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============================================-===============================================-==================================================================================================== ==========
un java-common <none> (no description available)
un java-compiler <none> (no description available)
un java-cup <none> (no description available)
un java-runtime <none> (no description available)
un java-virtual-machine <none> (no description available)
un java-virtual-machine-dummy <none> (no description available)
un java1-runtime <none> (no description available)
un java2-runtime <none> (no description available)
un java2html <none> (no description available)
un javalex <none> (no description available)

Comments: java-virtual-machine is not installed.

david@xdavid:~$ apt-cache show java-virtual-machine

Comments: However, my apt-cache does not have the package 'java-virtual-machine'.

david@xdavid:~$ apt-cache search java-virtual-machine
gij-3.3 - The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
java-virtual-machine-dummy - Dummy Java virtual machine
sablevm - Free implementation of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) second edition

Comments: Not in the apt-cache search either.

david:/home/david# apt-get install java-virtual-machine
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package java-virtual-machine is a virtual package provided by:
sablevm 1.1.0-5
java-virtual-machine-dummy 0.3
gij-3.3 1:3.3.3-6
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package java-virtual-machine has no installation candidate

Comments: Anyway, I tried installing the java-virtual-machine package. Read from another thread that any one of the three packages (sablevm, java-virtual-dummy, gij) should install java-virtual-machine. So I installed sablevm.

david@xdavid:~$ dpkg -l java*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============================================-===============================================-==================================================================================================== ==========
ii java-common 0.22 Base of all Java packages
un java-compiler <none> (no description available)
un java-cup <none> (no description available)
un java-runtime <none> (no description available)
un java-virtual-machine <none> (no description available)
un java-virtual-machine-dummy <none> (no description available)
un java1-runtime <none> (no description available)
un java2-runtime <none> (no description available)
un java2html <none> (no description available)
un javalex <none> (no description available)

Comments: After installing sablevm, Java-common package is shown as installed above. However, java-virtual-machine is still shown as not installed. Do I need to install all three packages? Web pages that require java-virtual-machine still prompt me to install it.

What is the correct method to install java-virtual-machine with apt-get?

Thanks !

i don't knew you error exactly, here is my steps. install java-common via apt-get, and goto sun's web site to download newest jdk rpm package. use alien to convert into deb package, then use dpkg to install. It works very well in my baby.

does this work for pogo.com, dominoes: check my earlier post, the blackdown version i got doesnt though suse8.2 that has same exact thing does go figure...let me know please

similar URL: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...313#post880313

Add this line to your sources.list

#java
deb http://debian.innovationsw.com/debian unstable/i386/

and make sure your also using the debian unstable mirrors
apt-get install j2sdk
and you should be set..

did an apt-get install j2sdk1.4 after apt-get install j2re1.4 from an already edited /etc/apt/sources.list

check out that url in my earlier post of this thread

still at sqaure one

Thanx and keep it coming cause i dunno!