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

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

This is off topic and I believe Rich already has the answer to his
question.  I don't believe there is a need to discuss this subject
further on this list unless it is specifically related to an issue one
might have with using Orca.

Thanks,

Will

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 10:46 -0400, Erik Heil wrote:
> 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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