posted 15 years ago
You downloaded the wrong file. RPMs are used by Fedora, Red Hat, CentOS, and SuSe (I think). Ubuntu is Debian-based, and they use ".deb" installer files.
However there's no deb-based installer for the JDK, so just use the generic install file, not the RPM one.
If my memory hasn't fuzzed out too much, there's an "alien" package installer designed to help install RPM files into Ubuntu, but I don't recommend it for this purpose. The generic install is the cleaner way to go.
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