How to install java in Oneiric?

[joneall]

On the Sun site, the only downloads for amd64 are in bin files. I can't figure out how to get either one to work. If I could get an RPM, I could use alien.

I need java in order to use Jalbum.

Thanks for any help.

[joneall]

Re: How to install java in Oneiric?

Just about all sites work fine with the icedtea Java from the repositories.

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B.t.w, I can really recommend Google to find solutions like these

I agree about Google. But I was on Sun's download page, not the install page you found. The install link on that page goes somewhere else. Sometimes, web links are like spaghetti.

Thanks for suggesting Icedtea. I will look into it. A couple of releases back, someone recommended NOT using it, but maybe it's better.

For the moment, I have managed to install openjdk-6 but apparently it installed more than that:

$grep -i jre packages.installed
icedtea-6-jre-cacao install
icedtea-6-jre-jamvm install
openjdk-6-jre install
openjdk-6-jre-headless install
openjdk-6-jre-lib install

So I am not sure what I am running, but Jalbumworks.


Thanks.

[arochester]

Re: How to install java in Oneiric?

There's a PPA.

Look here: http://ubuntuguide.net/install-sun-j...n-ubuntu-11-04

The actual PPA is here: https://launchpad.net/~ferramroberto...java/+packages

[bartman2589]

Re: How to install java in Oneiric?

The bin files are actually installers/self extracting archives, you need to download them and then change the permissions on them to make them executable, then launch them from a shell prompt.

Follow the instructions here: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/linux_install.xml (link provided by Teunis in an earlier post)

or you can also have a look at this post on Webupd8 which describes using a script to help automate the installation of Java 7 in Ubuntu (should work for Kubuntu as well though): http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/how-t...-7-jdk-in.html

The script mentioned in the above article doesn't fully automate the process (you still have to do some manual preparation) but helps make it a bit easier for some people.