Getting Java 5 install firefox 2

playa4002 · 12-01-2006, 11:56 AM

I have seen some posts with people who have this problem but no good answer.

"I got it to work, i just edited it to link to the other directly where i zipped it instead of the other place"

But where? and theres "Theres a tutorial on the sun site"

Where?

I have tryed everything, except for fakeroot because that doesn't work.

What should I do?

mrcheeks · 12-01-2006, 12:01 PM

Find the package
sudo apt-cache search sun-java5|grep plugin
install the package
sudo apt-get install foundPackage

playa4002 · 12-01-2006, 12:05 PM

it doesnt find anything, i forgot to say im on 6.10 (opps)

Code:

greg@greg-desktop:~$ sudo apt-cache search sun-java5|grep plugin
Password:
greg@greg-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install foundPackage
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package foundPackage
greg@greg-desktop:~$

binary_y2k2 · 12-02-2006, 05:51 AM

make sure you have the multiverse repository enabled an your sources.list, once you've done that, and updated your package list, you can install the java plugin with the command:

Code:

sudo apt-get install sun-java5-plugin

playa4002 · 12-07-2006, 07:37 PM

which source.list do i edit, and what do i type in to enable it?

playa4002 · 12-07-2006, 08:45 PM

wait, i got it i think just take away # comment.

how do i update my packages?

mrcheeks · 12-07-2006, 10:08 PM

Please have a look at the ubuntu wiki... sometimes...

binary_y2k2 · 12-08-2006, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by playa4002

wait, i got it i think just take away # comment.

Yes, anything with a '#' at the start of a line is classed as a comment and is ignored, just remove the '#'

Quote:

Originally Posted by playa4002

how do i update my packages?

In Adept; Click on the "Fetch Updates" button.
In Synaptic; Click on the "Reload" button.
In a terminal, type:

Code:

sudo apt-get update

playa4002 · 12-09-2006, 09:37 AM

thank you, but for when i update in synaptic, (only updated in there so far) some of the urls fail, should i be worried of that, or it doesnt matter?

binary_y2k2 · 12-09-2006, 05:14 PM

That means that it can't find the package list at those URLs.
So, yes, you should be worried about that, because you won't get any packages from that source.
It may have just been a typo, the line you need to enable multiverse is:

Code:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy multiverse

or with whatever local sever you have. e.g. us.ubuntu.com
or you can add "multiverse" to the mail source with "main restricted" on it.
You can post your /etc/apt/sources.list for us to have a look at if you want.