Thanks to Richard Lewis & Ben Whyte for the advice. Ben: "I use the sun-java runtime from the debian repositories so apt-get sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin "
I think that should be "apt-get install ..." Even so, it draws a blank:
# apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Package sun-java6-jre is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package sun-java6-jre has no installation candidate
Richard: "If you add non-free to your APT repositories you should be able to install the package sun-java6-plugin. However, for etch it's only available as a backport."
Here is my /etc/apt/sources.list (broken lines indicated with "")
deb-src cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official \ Multi-architecture i386 \ /amd64/powerpc/source DVD #1 20070407-12:57]/ etch contrib main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official \ Multi-architecture i386/amd64/powerpc/source DVD #1 \ 20070407-12:57]/ etch contrib main
deb http://www.backports.org/debian etch-backports main
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ etch-cran/
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
So it looks as though both etch-backports and non-free are there.
However, I've long suspected that there's something not quite right about my sources.list (and I'm not clued up on how to edit it nor what really ought to be in it).
So back to my SOS call for Mountain Rescue in Java! Ted.
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