Comments on: When I needed a firewall someone just gave me a code thing that I copied in the terminal thing and it was installed automatically. Is there a code like that for installing Java? Yahoo games and some other sites say that I need to install that and when i go to the Java website it doesn’t install. http://ubuntu.info-blogs.info/when-i-needed-a-firewall-someone-just-gave-me-a-code-thing-that-i-copied-in-the-terminal-thing-and-it-was-installed-automaticallyis-there-a-code-like-that-for-installing-java-yahoo-games-and-som/ Not just another blog! Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:37:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mr. Linux http://ubuntu.info-blogs.info/when-i-needed-a-firewall-someone-just-gave-me-a-code-thing-that-i-copied-in-the-terminal-thing-and-it-was-installed-automaticallyis-there-a-code-like-that-for-installing-java-yahoo-games-and-som/comment-page-1/#comment-1326 Mr. Linux Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:18:24 +0000 http://ubuntu.info-blogs.info/when-i-needed-a-firewall-someone-just-gave-me-a-code-thing-that-i-copied-in-the-terminal-thing-and-it-was-installed-automaticallyis-there-a-code-like-that-for-installing-java-yahoo-games-and-som/#comment-1326 Open a terminal and run this command: sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre sun-java5-plugin sun-java5-fonts Providing you have universe and multiverse repo's enabled. After which test your install with: java -version You should get some java output similar to this: java version "1.5.0_08" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_08-b03) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_08-b03, mixed mode, sharing) Open a terminal and run this command:

sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre sun-java5-plugin sun-java5-fonts

Providing you have universe and multiverse repo’s enabled.

After which test your install with:

java -version

You should get some java output similar to this:

java version “1.5.0_08″
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_08-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_08-b03, mixed mode, sharing)

]]> By: JTB http://ubuntu.info-blogs.info/when-i-needed-a-firewall-someone-just-gave-me-a-code-thing-that-i-copied-in-the-terminal-thing-and-it-was-installed-automaticallyis-there-a-code-like-that-for-installing-java-yahoo-games-and-som/comment-page-1/#comment-1325 JTB Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:38:55 +0000 http://ubuntu.info-blogs.info/when-i-needed-a-firewall-someone-just-gave-me-a-code-thing-that-i-copied-in-the-terminal-thing-and-it-was-installed-automaticallyis-there-a-code-like-that-for-installing-java-yahoo-games-and-som/#comment-1325 Installing Sun Java on Ubuntu Installing Java on Ubuntu Linux **I see in the links that they say java5, it's 6 now. Installing Sun Java on Ubuntu

Installing Java on Ubuntu Linux

**I see in the links that they say java5, it’s 6 now.

]]>