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since /etc/environment is a plain text file and not a shell script, $JAVA_HOME will not be recognized.

Therefore, including the entire path in the PATH variable worked wonderfully.
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Hi, I don't think update-alternatives will address the problem since I don't want to create symbolic links within the bin directories. My question is how to get it working as per Ubuntu's...

I installed java from Oracle. As per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables, set the PATH at /etc/environment.

$sudo vi /etc/environment
JAVA_HOME="/usr/local/jdk1_6"...

Ha, I just needed a c compiler. The following did the trick

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

What permissions did you give? Can y ou explain?? I"m having this problem too.

Ok, this is what I did for syncing:

After I installed linux, I rebooted the system, navigated to the partition tool within refit, Said "y" when I was asked if I should "Update the MBR". It updated...

No, I have only one drive.


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ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda print

Disk /dev/sda: 120GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Err...I have been trying it all weekend and today and I got "No bootable devices....", so I tried this link, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=767677, and my display froze with the tux image....

What if i required a /boot and a swap partition apart from the /(root) partition. Should i create 5 partitions? and on "Advanced" should i choose the /boot partition to install grub?