Using the Synaptic PM to install software is definitely the way to go.
Gobby, I appreciate your suggestion. Unfortunately, eclipse still does
not work. I removed both the j2sdk and eclipse and then reinstalled
jdk6 and eclipse again. Eclipse still did not work. OpenOffice works
fine. Has anyone out there actually been able to get eclipse to work?
Is there a particular java environment that works best? I plan to
install sciTE text editor so that I can write code. Maybe that one will
work for me.