Looks like Oracle has finally pulled the plug on using apt-get to install Java6. According to this site
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-January/001554.html [1] the java package will no longer be available for easy apt-get downloads...
I used to be able to
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list.
> sudo pico /etc/apt/sources.list
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Add the following at the bottom
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner
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Run this from the command line
> sudo apt-get update
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Run this from the command line to install Java
> sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
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