[SLUG] Ubuntu problem ... sortof

[Jason Rennie <jwrennie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I took the ubuntu plunge and now i'm stuck. 

I want to install java, but the simple apt-get mechanism on the ubuntu
webpage that is recommended is broken. It is complaining about a
deprecated package that cannot be installed.

Now I am sure I can do this via the manual download route (which is
what I guess I will end up doing) but you might want to get the
webpage updated.

Unless of course I am doing something stupid, i've not really every
used debian before.

Also I wanted to install java to get azureus to work, and I found a
deb resource for it, but it complains that it needs libswt to work and
that it cannot find this dependency. Again I presumeI just have to
find the right deb archive, but is there any central list of different
deb sources ?

This seems like a lot of work for something that works "out of the box", 

Jason