RSSOWL instructions don't work

[Fr33d0m]

Copied and pasted instructions into terminal. Got the following error twice:

(gedit:8309): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

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When I run RSSOwl the splash page shows, then nothing. Not sure what log to look at to see what goes wrong.

[Fr33d0m]

I should add to this that the java install also failed with:


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package sun-java5-jre

[Fr33d0m]

How to install JRE v5.0 Update 8 is another that doesn't quite work right.

Aside of the version number not being up to date, the line:

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_08/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so

doesn't work without sudo.

[Zaid]

I can't get rss owl or the java update to work either.