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I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and am looking to install Rubymine. It seems every tutorial recommends installing sun-java6-jre before downloading rubymine but aptitude and apt-get are returning nothing, claiming that sun-java6-jre no longer exists.

I'm completely unfamiliar with how to handle tar files and am unfamiliar with what to do once I start extracting files from the download.

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The Sun Java 6 packages are available from the "partner" repositories, which you can enable by adding the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list, and then running sudo apt-get update:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

After adding the "partner" repositories, you will be able to install the sun-java6-jre package the usual way (Ubuntu Software Center, Synaptic, apt-get, whatever).

Alternatively, you can try installing openjdk-6-jre instead, which is entirely free software and is thus available from the main repositories:

apt-get install openjdk-6-jre

Information on Java support for Ubuntu is available at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java

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Okay. Seems like promising advice, but at the end of the apt-get update I get this error E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? – Bodhidarma Jun 29 '11 at 14:20
Nevermind. I had to close synaptic package manager. This worked beautifully thank you. – Bodhidarma Jun 29 '11 at 14:23

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