Java installation issues on Ubuntu

Question

Trying to install Java (JDK 6) on my new Ubuntu system and getting some bizarro errors. This is my first time ever using any flavor of Linux and so I\'m sure it\'s

Answer 1

Why downloading a bin, when you can simply:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

If there isn't any special reason why you'd want that specific version from the site, you should use apt-get because it will take care of all the stuff like PATH variable, etc.