Installing Sun (Oracle) JDK 6 on Ubuntu

Ubuntu 10.10 installs OpenJDK as the default java distro. Often times I go ahead and replace it with closed source Sun (Oracle) JDK 1.6, in order to avoid any hiccups that I might encounter down the road with OpenJDK. It's possible to download the Sun Linux JDK distro from Oracle directly, but I always find it much easier and cleaner to do it directly through synaptic.

$sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6
$sudo apt-get  update
$sudo apt-get  install sun-java6-jdk
$sudo apt-get  install sun-java6-plugin
# to set this as default java version
$sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun      

Do a "java -version" to ensure everything worked well.

2 comments:

Comino197 said...

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murko said...

Thank you. This is exactly what I needed