Hello good folks,

Just done a fresh install of debian 5.0, took me ages to install the NVIDIA driver for my old graphics card...phew!! Next I tried to install java and I'm stuck. Read just about everything there is to read on google about installing Java on debian lenny. Got as far as putting the jre-6u26-linux-i586.bin into /usr/java and executed sh ./jre-6u26-linux-i586.bin now I see a new folder in /sr/java named jre1.6.0_26. Then I edited the /etc/profile and added:

export JAVA_PATH=/usr/java/jre1.6.0_26

Rebooted and zilch... sigh!!!

Any ideas to save my sanity?

Make sure you have contrib non-free in your sources.list

apt-get install sun-java6-plugin


Why did you install Lenny when Squeeze is the current Stable?

The reason I installed lenny was because I thought that was the latest release (hence the post in the newbie section, sorry!) I also thought that apt-get upgrade would install the latest release, seems that is not the case, arggg what should I do ?

http://www.howtoforge.com/upgrade-de...w-simple-steps will get you Squeeze. Make sure that you back up any personal files and settings before doing this, just in case. Also read the official line: http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl...rading.en.html

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Thanks guys, on the case now! When you say "Make sure you have contrib non-free in your sources.list" what is the exact line I should add to my sources.list?

Here's what I have now

There is no Volatile repo in Squeeze, just add contrib non-free to the end of the first two lines.


If you aren't sure what it should look like take a look at my Giant sources.list and

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nu-linux-3073/

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Cheers guys,

All worked a treat!