Installing Aventail VPN (and Sun Java6) on Ubuntu 10.04

Posted by Mike on May 1st, 2010

The Aventail VPN client requires Sun Java to correctly function on Ubuntu. For whatever reason, the OpenJDK is not sufficient, and the client exhibits numerous bugs. Unfortunately, for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Canonical decided to move Sun Java to the partner repository. It’s no-longer apt-get-able by default.
No worries, we can easily add the [...]


Hey Ubuntu, just to let you know, I’m about to bend you to my will

Posted by Mike on Feb 23rd, 2009

After fighting with Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 for months to get WIFI working, I finally found a Dell driver [0] that worked on my HP laptop through ndiswrapper [1].
A few hours later with success claimed, I decided to upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10, assuming I had conquered all possible obstacles and that anything in the future [...]


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