[orca-list] OT: cannot finish installing sun-java6-jre - license acceptance not possible with orca

["Rich Caloggero" <rjc MIT EDU>]

I just installed openoffice.org and thought I'd update to the latest java 
runtime. I tried installing the package sun-java6-jre, and the installation 
seemed to begin ok.  Then, a license screen appeared in the terminal with 
the last line "<ok>" (without the quot marks). I assumed I was supposed to 
click on that ok to accept the license, however this is not possible either 
using orca, or using the mouse.  When I then control-c'd out of the 
installer, I ended up with a hung process and a corrupted dpkg database.

I was able to fix the database, (at least I can install/uninstall packages 
again), but I still don't know how to install sun-java6-jre.

Either I'm attempting to install the wrong package (I just love these highly 
intuitive package names), or something's broken, or I'm doing something 
stupid, or all of the above.

Has anyone seen this before? Any suggestions on how to proceed?
-- Rich