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[CaffeinatedCthulhu]

I think something's wrong on my end. The console simply says "e: Illegal operation" when I give it the sudo apt command, and my synaptics manager is giving me this:

EDIT: only now noticed the illegibility, sorry. I loaded up the screenshots to tinypic but couldn't post them.

[wayward4now]

Huh, let's take it back to the beginning. Open a terminal. Type: java -version

What do you get?
ayward4now@iam:~$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_20"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 16.3-b01, mixed mode, sharing)
wayward4now@iam:~$

That it what I get here. Note the trademarked Java (TM) which is the real deal.

Next in that terminal window the ubuntu command to install would be
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
Just copy and paste that. Towards the end of the install, you should see a pop up license agreement. Do not just hit enter! You have to scroll down to see the click-to in the agreement. I THINK you just hit tab to select it. and then hit enter to agree. Then it will complete the installation. I hope this helps! Ric

[CaffeinatedCthulhu]

ducky@ubuntu:~$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_18"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1. (6b18-1.8-0ubuntu1)
OpenJDK Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)
ducky@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
[sudo] password for ducky:
E: Kon vergrendeling /var/lib/dpkg/lock niet verkrijgen - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
ducky@ubuntu:~$


That's what I get, at the version, and then the install.

[wayward4now]

This is your lucky day! I just re-installed last night, a fresh install of Ubuntu Lucid. I used Synaptic, as I mentioned to install the Sun JDK, which it did without complaint. Then I read your post and tried this on my own self:
wayward4now@iam:/etc$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_18"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1. (6b18-1.8-0ubuntu1)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode, sharing)

Holy smokes!! This is what CC has gone through, too. OK, I opened Synaptic again and put "iced" in the search bar and it showed an Iced-Tea pluggin and open JDK installed. So, I clicked to remove all of the pre-installed packages.

Then, after closing Synaptic, I tried again ...straightaway:

wayward4now@iam:/etc$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_20"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 16.3-b01, mixed mode, sharing)
wayward4now@iam:/etc$

YEA!! No more Iced-Tea and Sun's JDK is recognized by the system. Hope this helps, Ric

[CaffeinatedCthulhu]

ducky@ubuntu:~$ java -version
The program 'java' can be found in the following packages:
* gcj-4.4-jre-headless
* openjdk-6-jre-headless
* cacao
* gij-4.3
* jamvm
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
ducky@ubuntu:~$

Alright, followed those instructions. Now can I just install the java thing from synaptics.