Tom Marble wrote:

> As an FYI I want to let everyone know that I've been working with Debian
> and Ubuntu (as well as Blackdown and JPackage) in the past couple months
> to insure that Sun Java can be installed "normally" on these systems
> (and other distros too!) [1].  I've just completed detailed instructions
> on how to add Sun Java to Ubuntu Dapper RC [2].

Hmmm, put non-free into your sources.list and 

% sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre


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