Alessandro Melandri » JDK http://www.melandri.net J2EE Developer & Photography enthusiast Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Install Sun JDK on Linux http://www.melandri.net/2009/05/28/install-sun-jdk-on-linux/ http://www.melandri.net/2009/05/28/install-sun-jdk-on-linux/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 07:19:13 +0000 amelandri http://localhost/blog/?p=17 I’ve tested this procedure on Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.04 but It should work on other distributions too.

First of all download the latest JDK package from the SUN page: be sure to download the bin file and not the rpm.

From now on you’ll need to run commands using ”sudo”.

Move the package to /opt/ and make it executable.

cd /path/to/download/folder
mv jdk-versionnumber-linux-i586.bin /opt/
cd /opt/
chmod +x jdk-versionnumber-linux-i586.bin

Now start the installation and follow the onscreen instructions

./jdk-versionnumber-linux-i586.bin

When the installation is done you’ll need to set the JAVA_HOME enviroment variable and add java executable to the system pah.

Open the file /etc/profile and add the following lines

JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk_versionnumber"
export JAVA_HOME
 
PATH=$PATH:/opt/jdk_versionnumber/bin/
 
export PATH

Now add a symbolic link for the java command

ln -s /opt/jdk_versionnumber/bin/java /usr/bin/java

Log off and log in back and you’re done.

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