BleepingComputer.com: need help installing java on ubuntu 10.04

Java is supposed to be a platform independent development enviornment. Unfortunately the folk who develop games for POGO are quite content to mangle their code any way they see fit as long as it will still run on Windows and Mac. I have had several conversations with their tech support folks and Linux is not even on their radar. As a result, POGO games will only run with the Sun version of java.

Every time I do a Ubuntu install, the first thing I do is go into software sources and enable the partner repository and then install "Ubuntu-restricted-extras". That installs a lot of useful codecs and libraries. But it also installs the IcedTea java which will conflict with Sun java. So I use Synaptic Package Manager to remove the IcedTea java and install the Sun version. As a minimum you need to install the .jre, .plugin, and .fonts packages.

Sign out, sign back in and POGO should work fine after that.

Hey Miljet,
I've tried all that a number of times. Even installed updated java plugin (1.6.0_21). Still flakey. If anyone has more ideas, I'd be glad to try them out. Thanks

Here is a link that goes into more detail. http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/java

The last time I had any problem running POGO was with Ubuntu 8.04. Every version since has worked flawlessly with the version of Sun java that is in the repositories. I never had any luck with the updated versions from the Sun web site. If you remove all java versions you currently have installed and reinstall sun-java6.jre, sun-java6.plugin, and sun-java6.fonts from the repositories, it should work.

Gave up. Reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04. started from scratch, followed all recommendations, removed icedtea via synaptic package manager, installed java, still have the same problem with funky sound on Pogo. Everything else seems to work fine, though. I could live with it the way it is, but I have so much time invested in it now, I'd REALLY like to find a fix (if there is one). Maybe save somebody else from going through this. Thanks again for all the help.