Hello!

I downloaded jdk-1_5_0_07-linux-i586.bin , placed it into a folder named java that is in my home folder.

I then opened a terminal and did a sudo apt-get install fakeroot java-package and got this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package java-package is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package java-package has no installation candidate


Dont know what this means and I cant change the java .bin into a deb pkg until I can get past this point.

Any ideas? Thanks!

It may be that java-package is available only from the Debian contrib repositories. From there you don't need to include fakeroot in the apt-get ... it'll be included with java-package along with deb-helper and anything else you need.

Of course it may be more complcated since you aren't really using Debian.

Thanks but Ive fianally been able to install java using Synaptic package manager.

I could not originally find it in synaptic because the dapper repo, for some strange reason only named universe. I needed to add multiverse in /etc/apt/sources.list.

Thanks again!

The multiverse is not enabled by default because it contains non-fee packages that can't be enabled by default because of licencing

Yeah but what I meant was that universe/multiverse WERE enabled.

I enabled all repos after installation.

Let me show you my /etc/apt/sources.list in order to better describe what the deal was:

# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 5.10 _Breezy Badger_ - Release i386 (20051012)]/ breezy main restricted


## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch updated software from the network
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to fetch major bug fix updates produced
## after the final release of the distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe main restricted multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe

deb http://www.beerorkid.com/compiz/ dapper main

The repo in BOLD only named Universe. I had to add Multiverse.
After doing that, I could install jre from synaptic.

Dont know how that happened. All the preveous installations did not have this issue. weird.

Check my post here http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=206653 and you can see how I was helped.