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

[Erik Heil <eheil sdf lonestar org>]

Hi their. I was under the impression that Java was now covered under a GPL
license. Now, if this were true, then their would be no reason for license
acceptance. Or perhaps, the package maintainers have not gotten to that
point of removing the license acceptance code.

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Rich Caloggero wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:08:25 -0400
> From: Rich Caloggero <rjc MIT EDU>
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] OT: cannot finish installing sun-java6-jre - license
>     acceptance not possible with orca
>
> 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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