At Mon, 04 May 2009 15:47:54 +0100 (BST), (Ted Harding) wrote:
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
Are you using the CDs at all? If not, then I'd suggest you consider commenting these lines out.
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
This doesn't look quite right. I would guess that this mention of 'sarge' should read 'etch'.
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).
You may also want to consider changing all your sources from 'etch' to 'lenny' which is the latest stable release and choosing a nearer by mirror such as http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/
In any case, do:
$ sudo aptitude update
to make it download the latest package information from your chosen mirror.
Then you should be able to install sun-java6-plugin.
If you choose to upgrade to lenny, then you should do something like:
$ sudo aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade
and sacrifice a goat ;-)
Best, Richard