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I already have that option set. A search of Synaptic shows no j2re at all. I'm running Hoary if that matters.


Ahhh.. Okay, and I'm running Breezy. And yup, after looking at the Hoary packages, it appears that they don't have j2re available for hoary -- and the breezy one won't install on Hoary (needs dependencies).

So, you can either:

(1) upgrade to Breezy, which is a good idea in general --> just change your /etc/apt/sources.list file (replace all occurances of "hoary" with "breezy") and do apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade (and wait..).

Or (2) go and grab j2re directly from Sun and install it manually.

Cheers