Comments on: Installing Sun Java on Ubuntu Lucid

By: Tyler Wagner

Tyler Wagner — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:36:30 +0000

I’m glad I could help, Will!

By: Will

Will — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:21:55 +0000

OMG, you’re my HERO! I’ve been trying for literally months to get ONE website to work properly. Your fix took less than a minute, and works for both Firefox and Google Chrome. Thank you so much!

By: Rarsa

Rarsa — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:26:10 +0000

Succinct and easy.

I’ll need to remember this when writing “How-to”s

Thanks.

By: adam

adam — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:22:18 +0000

Thank you you are the first site to make this easy. I have been using Ubuntu since the beginning and this is the best instruction for Java.

Do you perfer Netbeans, or Eclipse?

By: Adam Schaible

Adam Schaible — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:07:20 +0000

Great guide, this is all the information I needed to replace Iced Tea with good ole Sun for those proprietary apps that refuse to run on Iced Tea.

Thanks a lot!

By: tyler

tyler — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:27:00 +0000

An upgrade won’t overwrite your /etc/alternatives preferences. By the same token, just installing the Sun JDK/JRE doesn’t make it the default JVM. Hence the update-alternatives commands.

By: Tom Purl

Tom Purl — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:04:40 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I had noticed that I was using the openjdk on my netbook, which was “upgraded” to 10.4 with a clean installation.

Also, I noticed that my main computer had both Sun’s JDK and the openjdk. I upgraded this machine without re-installing the OS. Surprisingly, all of the java-related shortcuts were already pointing at the Sun version.