Need help with installing java and java plugin on ubuntu 8.10

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hey e1 hope all is having a good day.i havent been back to ubuntu for a couple of months and i reinstalled this morning can someone help me get java installed and the plugin for firefox. looks like it has changed you cant install java6 anymore thru synaptics looks like its called icedtea6 i play on pogo.com and it uses java plugin if anyone could help me at all ty ty

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Icedtea is the Open Source implementation, if I recall correctly.

I have had better success with Sun's Java.

Once you browse to a site that uses Java, you should be prompted for a plugin. I believe it will present the options for you (IcedTea, Sun, whatever else). Click Sun and apply.

Should be all you need to do.

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ok the apt-get install sun-java6-plugin doest work this is what i get

randall@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Package sun-java6-plugin 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 sun-java6-plugin has no installation candidate

randall@ubuntu:~$

  markjensen said:
Icedtea is the Open Source implementation, if I recall correctly.

I have had better success with Sun's Java.

Once you browse to a site that uses Java, you should be prompted for a plugin. I believe it will present the options for you (IcedTea, Sun, whatever else). Click Sun and apply.

Should be all you need to do.

ok i tried that and it wants me to download the file from java and install that way but doesnt work either

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ok i tried the instructions mephistopheles and i get this error after i do this command

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin

randall@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Package sun-java6-plugin 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 sun-java6-plugin has no installation candidate

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  xrandallx said:
ok i tried the instructions mephistopheles and i get this error after i do this command

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin

randall@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Package sun-java6-plugin 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 sun-java6-plugin has no installation candidate

Did you make sure that the 'restricted' and the 'multiverse' repositories are added to your /etc/apt/sources.list (see the article I linked to for details)?

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yes i did

when i do this java -version it looks like it shows 2 javas

randall@ubuntu:~$ java -version

java version "1.6.0_0"

IcedTea6 1.3.1 (6b12-0ubuntu6.1) Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_0-b12)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0_0-b12, mixed mode)

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  xrandallx said:
yes i did

when i do this java -version it looks like it shows 2 javas

randall@ubuntu:~$ java -version

java version "1.6.0_0"

IcedTea6 1.3.1 (6b12-0ubuntu6.1) Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_0-b12)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.6.0_0-b12, mixed mode)

Remove the IcedTea plug-in, then install the sun-java6-plugin.

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xrandallx

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ok everything to do with java has been removed java -version no longer show anything i made sure the sources where updated with what that site said that you gave me, did apt-get update and it updated then i rean the command to install and i get this still

randall@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Package sun-java6-plugin 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 sun-java6-plugin has no installation candidate

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First, so an apt-get update. Then, use synaptic to find sun java packages and install them. Be sure you went to Options;repository and enabled multiverse, restricted and commercial, apparently, you didnt. Then, update the package list again. They are there, even on jaunty (9.04).

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ok i would like to update this thread thanks all for the help guys but i feel like a blonde lol i found out that im using the 64bit version of 8.10 and i recently upgraded to jaunty 9.04 to test and play around so here is the site that i found out how to install java and flash for my computer i did lots of googling java and flash for amd64 so now every thing is working and no problem :D

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