Oracle JDK 1.6

Hey All,

This post explains how to install Oracle's JDK 1.6 to your Ubuntu 10.04. By default Ubuntu comes with openjdk.

So to install Oracle JDK 1.6, do add this below line to /etc/apt/sources.list file as root.

Issue this command first:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Next paste this below line into it

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

Next issue this command:

sudo apt-get update

Next open synaptic package manager and search for sun-java6-jdk


Select the check box and mark it for installation.

Hope you liked this...

Tc,
Ananth S Gouri