Installing Sun Java 6 in Ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, 11.04
Posted 20110225. Last Updated 20110602.
If you want to install Oracles (formerly Sun) binary version of Java 6, type these 3 lines into your terminal. It will install the JRE and JDK.
Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk
Ubuntu 11.04:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts
