Linux: Installing sun-java 6u2 the Debian way on Ubuntu Dapper

Even though the recent changes in Sun's licensing, for distributing the jdk as a package, allows Ubuntu to provide prepackaged jdk's, I couldn't find a package for my Dapper install. On the dutch Ubuntu forums there was someone asking for a package for jdk 6u2, so I decided to give him a hand. This is the procedure that will work on Dapper, Edgy and Feisty:
  1. sudo apt-get install java-package

  2. now edit: gksudo gedit /usr/share/java-package/sun-j2sdk.sh

  3. search this section:

     "jdk-1_5_0_"[0-9][0-9]"-linux-i586.bin") # SUPPORTED
         j2se_version=1.5.0+update${archive_name:10:2}
         j2se_expected_min_size=130
         found=true
         ;;
          esac
          ;;

  4. make it look like this:

     "jdk-1_5_0_"[0-9][0-9]"-linux-i586.bin") # SUPPORTED
         j2se_version=1.5.0+update${archive_name:10:2}
         j2se_expected_min_size=130
         found=true
         ;;
     "jdk-6u"[0-9]"-linux-i586.bin") # SUPPORTED
         j2se_version=1.6.0+update${archive_name:6:1}
         j2se_expected_min_size=58
         found=true
         ;;
          esac
          ;;

  5. copy: sudo cp -r /usr/share/java-package/sun-j2sdk1.5 /usr/share/java-package/sun-j2sdk1.6

  6. edit: gksudo gedit /usr/share/java-package/sun-j2sdk1.6/install and replace j2sdk1.5-sun by j2sdk1.6-sun

  7. edit: gksudo gedit /usr/share/java-package/sun-j2sdk1.6/remove and replace j2sdk1.5-sun by j2sdk1.6-sun

  8. download: jdk-6u2-linux-i586.bin

  9. execute install: fakeroot make-jpkg ./jdk-6u2-linux-i586.bin

  10. this results in a .deb that you can install using sudo dpkg -i ./sun-j2sdk1.6_1.6.0+update2_i386.deb


Voila.

Comments

mrsulu said…
Ah ha, mister Kenneth , meneer heeft een tweeling nu ;-)

Tot ziens,
Herman (vanuit AXA)
11:02 PM
Kenneth Westelinck said…
Herman! Kerel, alles goed met u. Zo te zien nog steeds aan het werk bij Axa. Ondertussen heb ik ook Delaware geruild voor een interessantere job ;)
De tweeling wordt maandag (27/08) geboren, dus dat wordt nog even afwachten.
Tot ziens.
7:58 PM
Florian Arndt (安福然) said…
Thanks a lot for this post, it sweetened my morning :-)
11:06 AM
Anonymous said…
Great, thank you :) !
10:34 PM
René said…
Don't forget to check wich version of java is used by default after using this super recipe bij entering the command:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

and choose the new version as default...

Thanks for posting!
12:44 PM
Anonymous said…
Thanks for the post! It was incredibly helpful!
4:53 AM
Anonymous said…
Thanks from Rina.
Paris
11:27 AM
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