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Installing Java

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Hi … i have a problem, maybe someone here can help me.

I want to install java.

Im doing:

sudo apt-get install java-package

its giving me: could find package

and with sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

its giving me package sun-java6-jdk has no installation candidate.

I did the same thing on my laptop (ubuntu) and it worked.

but when I go to my linode(ubuntu) via terminal it does not….

any ideas? can some one please help?

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Might help if you told people what Distro you're using.

You have two options:

  • for the opensource package in the Ubuntu repos:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk
  • if you want Sun's java you have to add it's repositories to apt:
echo "
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner
" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-get update

apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

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