Install Openjdk7 in Ubuntu 11.10

By
Roy s

The “sun-java6” package is no longer available in the official Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot repositories.   Lets  show  you  some  ways  How  to install  java  in your  Ubuntu 11.10

 

 

– Install OpenJDK 7.0:



sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

– you can still use Java 6 from the 

ferramroberto

PPA:



sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java






sudo apt-get update






sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin

 

Install  Java 7 Browser plugin

All  browsers  are looking   for  java  plgins  under    this  directory   ~/.mozilla/plugins .

a simbolic link for the newly installed Java into the Mozilla plugins directory:

– 32bit:



mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins






ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

 

– 64bit:



mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins






ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/