How to install the Sun Java JDK on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)?

Question

I've tried to add the Canonical Partner repository, but I still can't find the sun-java6-jdk package. What is the right way to install the Oracle Sun JDK instead of OpenJDK on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)?

Answer 1

Currently the Sun Java 6 packages are working fine now for Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04 users. It works fine for me.

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Answer 2

Update (2010/10/01): Yesss, Sun Java Finally Uploaded To The Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Official Partner Repository.

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Update (2010/09/27): Readers might want to check Sun Java6 Packages [updated]. I still expect official packages to be available in the partner repos at releast time though.

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For an unknown reason, the sun-java6-jdk are not yet available in the partner repositories.

So either downloaded the required packages from http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/s/sun-java6/ and install them with dpkg -i.

Or temporarily replace the maverick partner repository

http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu maverick partner

by the lucid one (replace maverick by lucid in the above line, let me know if you need more help to do this). Then, install sun-java6. And revert the change.

Answer 3

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jdk

Answer 4

Installation:

for 10.10:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ maverick partner"

for 11.04

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ natty partner"

Continue with:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

Use as default:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

Installing JDK:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Source code (to be used in development):

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-source

Source of these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java

Answer 5

All you need to do is uncomment the two lines in /etc/apt/sources.list that refer to "partner"

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
# uncomment the two lines referring to "partner"
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jdk

(I can't find the command add-apt-repository on Ubuntu 10.10, 64 amd ... even searching with apt-cache yields nothing)

Answer 6

It is working fine for me, but with a different command:

root@ubuntu:/usr/bin# sudo apt-get install sun-java6

Error message:

Couldn't find package sun-java6.

root@ubuntu:/usr/bin# sudo apt-get install sun-java*

Bam, it worked.

Answer 7

This worked for me:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk

Answer 8

You might have to use the version in the Lucid partner repository. I did this in Lucid (I used the version from Karmic multiverse, before I realized it had been moved to the partner repo), and it worked fine. Not sure where it went in Maverick though.

Answer 9

I am assuming that you need the JDK itself. If so you can accomplish this with:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

You don't really need to go around editing sources or anything along those lines.

Answer 10

If add-apt-repository it's not working try this:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

That package is required in order to execute that command, in my server it wasn't installed by default (Ubuntu server x64)

Answer 11

For Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop simply do this: Ubuntu - Installing Java.