Sunday, December 19, 2010

How to install Sun JDK on Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick meerkat”?

Surprised to find that Sun Java packages were missing in Ubuntu Maverick (10.10). The new Ubuntu release uses OpenJDK by default. I needed sun-java6-jdk package to use a eclipse IDE development Android ADT plugin.

Found the solution in this StackOverFlow thread How to install Sun JDK on Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick meerkat”? 


# Add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu maverick partner

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk 

# Get rid of OpenJDK 
sudo apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib
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19 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 8, 2011 at 9:17 PM

    Very useful, thanks!

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 16, 2011 at 1:27 AM

    Was helpful

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2011 at 3:32 PM

    You forget add "deb" before link.

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  4. ArkyJanuary 24, 2011 at 3:43 PM

    Thanks for pointing that out! Fixed!

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 25, 2011 at 10:05 AM

    Thaaaaaaaaaaks

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  6. AnonymousMarch 4, 2011 at 10:38 AM

    Saved me ... so cheers to you

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  7. UnknownMarch 15, 2011 at 2:21 AM

    Got me going quickly, thanks!

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  8. Théo CambouliveMarch 25, 2011 at 12:38 AM

    Perfect! What an useful tip!
    Thanks!

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  9. UnknownMarch 28, 2011 at 8:54 PM

    Very usefull for quick switch to the sun java products and some others (canonical partners).

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  10. AnonymousApril 4, 2011 at 1:21 AM

    Thanks!! a lot worked for me!!

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  11. AnonymousApril 12, 2011 at 6:46 AM

    Thank you, this was really brief and useful. I wish one day we could find solutions for every problem like this one :D.

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  12. AnonymousApril 23, 2011 at 12:23 AM

    very good, thank you....the Ubuntu community is the best.

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  13. AnonymousMay 2, 2011 at 4:19 PM

    does open jdk has any issue with eclipse? why u go for sun jdk? Can you point out the reason?

    It will be useful for all..!

    Thanks!

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  14. ArkyMay 9, 2011 at 12:45 PM

    Android ADT plugin for Eclipse needs Sun JDK.

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  15. AnonymousAugust 2, 2011 at 3:40 PM

    thanks...was really helpful

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  16. sujarweOctober 10, 2011 at 12:51 PM

    i can't download it

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  17. ArkyOctober 10, 2011 at 1:18 PM

    Sujarwe, Can you give more information about your problem.

    What errors are you getting?

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  18. redaxe90December 17, 2011 at 5:33 AM

    Just tried your method, but got this error message from the terminal:


    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
    requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
    distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
    or been moved out of Incoming.
    The following information may help to resolve the situation:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies.
    sun-java6-jdk : Depends: sun-java6-bin (>= 6.26-2maverick1) but it is not going to be installed
    E: Broken packages

    Any ideas what could have caused this?

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  19. ArkyDecember 30, 2011 at 6:05 AM

    redaxe90 can't help you. Perhaps you can report a broken packages bug.

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