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

["David E. Price" <deprice cs utah edu>]

Hi,

when you get to the end of the license agreement, press the Tab key once 
and press Enter. That's all you need to do.

dave


On 03/17/2009 02:08 PM, Rich Caloggero wrote:
> 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
>
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