Comment 3 for bug 85969

Nathan Murray wrote:
> I think the issue could possibly lie in the matter that there is no root
> account per say. Have noticed that on my fiesty system it continues and
> try top install it self with every package that I add to the system.
>
>

If you follow the instructions it gives, it will install and stop
popping up during your updates.
You need to grab an archive from sun's website, and move/decompress it
to a specific location with root permissions.

However - I think the fact that you have to do that is a bug in and of
itself.
Especially because the broken package will halt any update operation.
Users less familiar with ubuntu might mistakenly think that the process
has frozen, when in fact its halted because of blocking I/O.

In my opinion, either the package should actually install the
documentation from sun's website or should be removed from the repository.
Why would anyone want to install a package that installs nothing and
does nothing more than screw up your updates until you install some
archives off the web as root?

-Max