downloading Java for Kubuntu 12.04

[Guest]

Hi all,

I have gone to the JAVA site and try to download JRE and JDK. Followed the direction, but when I click on the link to download at htts:\\apt??, it returen error. Also tried the apt-get, no luck there either. Any advise will be greatly appreciated... thanks...//ed

[james147]

Install openjdk-6-jre for the java runtime or openjdk-6-jdk for the development kit (or openjdk-7-{jre,jdk} for version 7). Openjdk should be good enough for more purposes and is easier to install. (grumbles about Oracle)

[SteveRiley]

Two meta-packages will help ease your Java installation. These always depend on the latest stable Java runtimes and browser plugins.

sudo apt-get install default-jre icedtea-plugin