RE: [newbie] installing java

[Owen Berio]

At 08:10 PM 12/24/2002 -0800, you wrote:

X86 / 9.0 (Dolphin) / Installation Q

I have down loaded java  j2re-140-03 from Sun Microsystems download page.
It now resides in /home/owen/dlsoftware. (dlsoftware is a folder I created).
 Now how do I go about installing it?
Please explain step by step. As a newbie my skill level stopped with pushing icon buttons.
My end objective is to install Star Office but the installation stalls because I lack the necessary java software.
Owen