Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu questions

["Jonathan Bringhurst" <fintler@gmail.com>]

There's a big section on the wiki for this. Check out
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java. There's some issues with
licensing, so it's a bit of a pita.

-Jon

On 11/6/06, Eric <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
> I've "rebuilt" my linux workstation - this time with an Asus
> A8V-VM and an Athlon 64 X2.  I put Ubuntu for x86_64 on it.
> Gnome gets some "getting used to" since I've been using KDE
> almost exclusively.
>
> There are two things that trouble me:
> 1.  I'm using Thunderbird.  When I install Enigmail (or try to)
> it tells me that it's not for the x86_64 architecture.  That's
> strange since in installed it in my SuSE x86_64 system.  Perhaps
> there's something that I need to install in Ubuntu to make it
> run non-x86_64 binaries?
>
> 2.  I need java.  When I type "java -version" it tells me that
> it's running java "1.4.2" - but not sun's java.  What is it that
> I'm getting?  An open-source implementation of Java?  If so then
> I need to un-install that and get the latest java from Sun or IBM.
> Is there an "apt-get" way of un-installing the java I have and
> getting the "real thing" or do I just use the SUN/IBM installer?
>
> Eric
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