Installing Java for BlogBridge 6.7 on Ubuntu Studio 9.10 
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In my earlier post, BlogBridge on Debian or Ubuntu Needs Sun Java, I showed how I got a version of Java installed on Debian that enabled me to run BlogBridge. On my new Ubuntu Studio 9.04 system, I ran into all sorts of problems as soon as I installed Open Office, BlogBridge, and OpenJDK 6. Both Open Office and BlogBridge ran, but the system kept freezing (a crashing real-time kernel, from what I've read).
My new Ubuntu Studio 9.10 install, with Open Office now also installed, is very stable. However, using Thunderbird as my RSS feed reader is annoying -- it's much more cumbersome process to see what's new and how old the entries are than is the case with BlogBridge, which has a nice little diagram showing the number of entries for each feed in each day of the past week. That's really convenient!
So, even though I think there has to be a Java Run-time Environment on this system somewhere (doesn't Open Office require that? or does it have its own built-in JRE or something?) -- I decided to install a JRE. After a bit of research, I went with the sun-java6-jre package.
BlogBridge now works. And, thus far, my system is still stable. Here's hoping that continues!
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