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 inst

Answer 1

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 2

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

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

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 5

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 6

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)