You have to use Firefox to do this. Opera Browser identifies this .pet as a .targz and downloads it as such. You could probably get away with renaming the .targz as a .pet. But I just use Firefox instead as it is included by default in MacPup 5.28 Beta right now so for me it is easier.
I grabbed the
I have mirrored the latest jre PET here:
http://www.revolutionvoice.com/jre-6u26-1-i386.pet
from TLM's post. From this thread below
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70042&sid=1ba31c2c6b0ff0b78d247e1cdd108933
When the download link opens. Just pick open instead of save and wait. Takes a little while. Then petget will open and ask if you wish to install. Say yes. Let if finish. Takes a little time. You are done. Restart Firefox. Open a Blank tab. Type in address bar
about:plugins
Hit enter key. Java should show at top of page. Test java at
I get the pink rectangle showing jre-1.6.0_26 is installed.