Installing Sun JDK 6 on Ubuntu 10.04

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The Sun JDK can be installed on Ubuntu by adding a repository and installing with apt-get. The following works with the latest versions of both at the time of writing:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

If the command add-apt-repository is missing, install it with the following command:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

With the alternatives system in place, the Java executable is automatically available:

/usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java
/etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

Setting up JAVA_HOME can now be done by editing /etc/profile and adding to the bottom:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

8 thoughts on “Installing Sun JDK 6 on Ubuntu 10.04”

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    Shakil Akhtar

    July 7, 2010 at 11:12pm

    Hi,
    good post helped me to run Java on ubantu.
    If you can paste also how to set JAVA_HOME and PATH variables will be a great help for me.

    Thanks,
    Shakil

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    jansipke

    July 15, 2010 at 8:25am

    Added info on the alternatives system and setting up JAVA_HOME.

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    cycjackiechan

    August 24, 2010 at 4:01am

    thanks a lot

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    JT

    September 8, 2010 at 10:04am

    hi

    i like this article.
    i follow this article.

    but I do not know sdk by install 64bit or 32bit version.

    sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
    ↑
    JDk install is 64bit or 32bit versiono?

    Please

    thanks

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    Jan Huysmans

    September 29, 2010 at 4:28pm

    How do you set classpath?

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    Zoey

    October 2, 2012 at 12:18pm

    Hello,
    Thank you very much for posting this tutorial.
    However i am having a problem with the installation. This is the error i get:
    Package sun-java6-jdk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source
    E: Package sun-java6-jdk has no installation candidate
    Can you please help me out? Everywhere i read the same thing: Sun Java has been deprecated.No longer in use

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