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installing Java JDK 6

Asked by Hisham Sayed

I using Ubuntu and Itried to install sun Java JDK 6 using Ubuntu but I always get this message
"MSDOS EOF (^Z) in field name ` E: I am tried Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)"

I tried by many means "from sun site, or synaptic Package Manager, or command line even also try to install sun Java JDK 5"
but I always get this message.

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Shane Fagan (shanepatrickfagan) said : 		#1

Reboot first then open terminal applications>accessories>terminal
Then copy and paste these into the terminal and hit enter on the keyboard.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Hope that helps

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DILeeshvar (dileeshvar) said : 		#2

this will be much simpler I guess :)

sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jdk

run it in terminal

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