Question

I am installing sun-java6-jre on ubuntu 12.04, but I am getting the following error,

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 sun-java6-jdk : Depends: sun-java6-bin (= 6-06-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
 sun-java6-jre : Depends: sun-java6-bin (>= 6.30-2~precise1) but it is not going to be installed or
                      ia32-sun-java6-bin (>= 6.30-2~precise1) but it is not going to be installed
                 Recommends: gsfonts-x11 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Please help!

Answer 1

Sun Java is no longer available for Ubuntu in this way.

Will

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk 

be good enough for what you need?