Installing Sun Java On Ubuntu/Debian

Installing Sun Java On Ubuntu/Debian




Download latest Java JDK from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp

(being sure not to download the .rpm, but rather the .bin)

install java-package with apt-get

(that includes binutils, fakeroot)

(Note also that java-package is in “multiverse”, so your repository list /etc/apt/sources.list needs to have that enabled)

make debian java package:

Disregarding the errors, in a tmp dir where we have copied the downloaded jdk, we do (without using sudo):



fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.binwhich, after ok’ing the license and extracting stuff, and trundling,after a while creates sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+update06_i386.deb

then we install our newly made package, this time with sudo:



sudo dpkg -i sun-j2sdk1.5_1.5.0+update06_i386.deb“Once you’ve installed it, you’ll be up and running with the latest jdk: your JAVA_HOME is now, for example, /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun. Get a command line, and enter java -version: you should see something like:


Now you have java :)