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command-not-found package

java advice lacks sun-java6-jre (update-alternatives parser limitation?)

Bug #458411 reported by Tom Womack
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #452393: Sun JVM is not mentioned for "java". Edit Remove
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command-not-found (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: command-not-found

When I type 'java' with java not installed, I get a list of recommended packages

The program 'java' can be found in the following packages:
 * gij-4.3
 * java-gcj-compat-headless
 * openjdk-6-jre-headless
 * cacao
 * gij-4.2
 * jamvm
 * kaffe

which does not include sun-java6-jre. I would expect sun-java6-jre to be on the list, and am not quite sure why it's not the only recommendation.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: command-not-found 0.2.34ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: command-not-found
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64

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Tom Womack (tom-womack) wrote :
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Waldir Leoncio (wleoncio) wrote :

I'm not 100% sure about this, but if openjdk is there, I believe sun java should be too.

Changed in command-not-found (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : Re: java advice lacks sun-java6-jre

I looked at the package and it seems like sun-java6-jre uses a relatively complicated update-alternatives script to generate the binaries. This is not picked up by our parser.

Changed in command-not-found (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
summary: - java makes silly recommendations
+ java advice lacks sun-java6-jre
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

For references, the scripts are part of sun-java6-bin.

summary: - java advice lacks sun-java6-jre
+ java advice lacks sun-java6-jre (update-alternatives parser limitation?)
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #452393, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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