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Simon Phipps: Yes, you can now “apt-get sun-java5-jdk” and have it install without fuss on Debian and Ubuntu.

For some definition of the word now, perhaps.

rubys@rubypad:~$ sudo apt-get -t dapper install sun-java5-jdk
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package sun-java5-jdk
rubys@rubypad:~$

Presumably this will eventually show up in the multiverse ghetto of Edgy Eft?

Update: After adding Dapper multiverse to etc/apt/sources.list, doing an apt-get update, and correcting the typo in the command above, I now get:

rubys@rubypad:~$ sudo apt-get -t dapper install sun-java5-jdk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  sun-java5-bin sun-java5-demo sun-java5-jre unixodbc
Suggested packages:
  sun-java5-doc sun-java5-source sun-java5-plugin ia32-sun-java5-plugin
  sun-java5-fonts libmyodbc odbc-postgresql libct1
Recommended packages:
  gsfonts-x11
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  sun-java5-bin sun-java5-demo sun-java5-jdk sun-java5-jre unixodbc
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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