Java 6 in Ubuntu, The Right Way

Ubuntu has made it extremely easy to install the Sun Java Development Environment. This is good, because the default java-gcj is very slow.

First install the package with: sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

That may take a while since the package is 125MB. Once it is installed, you still need to make it the default:

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 by Casey Watson and is filed under Java, Ubuntu. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or Trackback from your own site.