Re: advice getting jre installed

Christofer C. Bell wrote:

On 6/29/06, deadgobby <ulist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Try running Automatix. Read first before Dl and installing.

I've heard nothing but horror stories about Automatix. I'd recommend
EasyUbuntu[1] instead. In fact, ubotu, the official support infobot
of the #ubuntu IRC channel has this to say about Automatix:

Sheesh! Why not just install the _Ubuntu_ Sun Java packages! They're in
sun-java5-jre and sun-java5-jdk.
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derek


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