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Ubuntu Live and Java

Apr 16th, 2008
by Jim Reverend.
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I'm not sure if this is specific to the Ubuntu Live based installs, or if this would apply to any Ubuntu installation. However, attempting to install sun-java6-jre (or sun-java5-jre) has left me with a continuous string of errors until I did this…

ln -s / /cow

It seems as though one of the installation scripts has this path hardcoded in it, and, without it, these scripts fail.

I hope this helps you if you should even encounter the same problem.

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  • Say... what? I have no such dir, and got no such errors...

    In fact, to find this, I did :
    apt-get source sun-java6-jre
    fgrep "cow" sun-java6-6-03/debian/* -R

    And I find no references to cows. You sure it's not a previously misconfigured package?
  • I even tried performing a complete uninstall of everything Java and
    then reinstalling and it still failed. As I was poking around the
    internets looking for a solution I found someone offering this tidbit
    of info. I knew the problem I was having was somewhere in the postinst
    script, so I greped in it looking for "cow" to no avail. Willing to
    try anything I said, "what the hell", made the symlink and it worked.
    I was as shocked as you.

    I believe this is the web page I found that referenced that fix:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6/+bug/103933
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