{"id":331,"date":"2013-10-03T20:13:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/?p=331"},"modified":"2013-10-03T20:20:54","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T00:20:54","slug":"java-on-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/03\/java-on-ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail\/","title":{"rendered":"Java on Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Installing Oracle Java on Ubuntu can be a pretty daunting task. After reading the Ubuntu documentation here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Java\" href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/Java\" target=\"_blank\">Java<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nI came across this nice github project:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"oab-java6\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/flexiondotorg\/oab-java6\" target=\"_blank\">oab-java6<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nSimply run<\/p>\n<pre>git clone https:\/\/github.com\/flexiondotorg\/oab-java6.git<\/pre>\n<p>Then cd into oab-java6 and run<\/p>\n<pre>sudo .\/oab-java.sh<\/pre>\n<p>This will set up a local apt repository for Sun Java 6 and Oracle Java 7. Now run<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get update<\/pre>\n<p>to add the packages from the repository. As the documentation states, you can now run<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre<\/pre>\n<p>To install Java 6 runtime environment.<\/p>\n<p>One small thing to note:<\/p>\n<p>I had to run<\/p>\n<pre>sudo update-alternatives --config java<\/pre>\n<p>and select the Sun JRE since the system defaulted to IcedTea.<\/p>\n<p>Now do<\/p>\n<pre>java -version<\/pre>\n<p>to see what you have!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing Oracle Java on Ubuntu can be a pretty daunting task. After reading the Ubuntu documentation here: Java I came across this nice github project: oab-java6 Simply run git clone https:\/\/github.com\/flexiondotorg\/oab-java6.git Then cd into oab-java6 and run sudo .\/oab-java.sh This will set up a local apt repository for Sun Java 6 and Oracle Java 7. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123,172,173,16,174,175,60],"tags":[217,168,178,180,177,179,176,33],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13-04","category-java-2","category-jre","category-linux","category-oracle","category-sun","category-ubuntu-linux","tag-13-04","tag-java","tag-jre-2","tag-oab-java6","tag-oracle-2","tag-raring-ringtail","tag-sun-2","tag-ubuntu-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fcrv-5l","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}