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:

"automatix is a script that automates installation of some items and
has been reported to break your system while doing that, please see
http://help.ubuntu.com and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDocumentation
instead."

Suffice it to say that Sun's J2SE 5.0 Release 7 is already packaged in
the Multiverse repository for Ubuntu. There is no need to install any
RPM package. The only caveat is that you will need to manually
download the jdk1.5.0-doc.zip[2] file and copy it to /tmp before
installing the sun-java5-doc package.


trouble installing easyubuntu - here is the python trace:


--- snip ----

# python easyubuntu.in
System sanity check: PASSED!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "easyubuntu.in", line 51, in ?
main()
File "easyubuntu.in", line 43, in main
if detect.de() == 'gnome':
File "/home/noah/easyubuntu/EasyUbuntu/detect.py", line 78, in de
import gtk, gtk.glade
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 45, in ?
from _gtk import *
RuntimeError: could not open display
# python -V
Python 2.4.3


---- snip --


[1] http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/
[2] http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/index.html - Link in the upper right.



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