Comment 62 for bug 85969

Thank you James, I haven't had a clue as to where  to even  start, I will take your advice. Ken

--- On Wed, 4/29/09, James Stansell <email address hidden> wrote:

From: James Stansell <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 85969] Re: Java Docs Package Won't Install
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 9:49 PM

Ken, the simplest (and most sensible, IMHO) action is to purge the sun-
java6-doc package from your system.  You probably don't need it.

If you do want to use the java docs they're readily available online.
Or essentially the same information is available in the openjdk6 docs
package.  And it doesn't have any installation hassles.

-james.

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Java Docs Package Won't Install
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Status in “j2se1.4-i586” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “sun-java5” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Status in “sun-java6” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: sun-java6-doc

This is also a problem with the java5 version of this package

Trying to install these packages produces a message:

Setting up sun-java6-doc (6-00-2ubuntu1) ...
This package is an installer package, it does not actually contain the
JDK documentation.  You will need to go download one of the
archives:

    jdk-6-doc.zip jdk-6-doc-ja.zip

(choose the non-update version if this is the first installation).
Please visit

    http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/

now and download.  The file should be owned by root.root and be copied
to /tmp.

[Press RETURN to try again, 'no' + RETURN to abort]

We should probably use wget or something to grab these files and save users the hassle. This is annoying and unnecessary.