> From: Robert Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 22:51:02 +0800
> To: "WAMUG Mailing List" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: java 1.4.2 update
> 
> 
> On Thursday, May 20, 2004, at 09:51  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>> On 20/05/2004, at 5:19 PM, bp mad wrote:
>> 
>>> hello can someone help iam getting amessage to update
>>> java to 1.4.2 when istart up .so dutifully downloaded
>>> it
>>> only to be told that i could not install to mty hard
>>> drive and to install 1.4.1 first . so back to apple to
>>> 
>>> download 1.4.1 run the installer then tried to install
>>> 1.4.2 only to be advised that i still needed to
>>> install 1.4.1 update first DOH!
>>> is anyone else having this problem or is it just me
>>> whose no getting it ???????
>>>  thanks in advance
>>>               bmad
>> 

Try opening the folder Library/Receipts and deleting any files called java
in there and then running the 1.4.1. Install again then the 1.4.2.
From memory that does it.
Rob