Due to Non-Free status of most Java implementations, Ubuntu does not include Java support natively.
In the repository you can find the latest Sun JRE and Sun JDK prebuilt for Ubuntu Warty. At the moment there is Sun JRE/JDK 1.4.2_06, Sun JDK 1.5.0 (package from above source) and Sun JRE/JDK 1.5.0 Update 1.
deb http://ubuntu.tower-net.de/ubuntu/ warty java
If you have not done already, you must add the multiverse repository for one dependency, too:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ warty multiverse
The package is called somathing like sun-j2sdk1.5 (to find out its actual name do a search in synaptic for 'sun-j2' or type 'sudo apt-cache search sun-j2'.
Alsoe look at this for a generic aproach:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/AddingJavaSupport
- Download jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586 from here http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp (Update 1)
- $ cd browse_to_your_download_folder
$ sh jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586.bin
$ sudo mkdir /usr/java
$ sudo mv jre1.5.0_01/ /usr/java/
$ sudo chown -R root:root /usr/java/jre1.5.0_01/
$ sudo ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_01/bin/java /usr/bin/java
$ sudo ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_01/bin/java_vm /usr/bin/java_vm
$ sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc
- add this to the bash.bashrc
JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jre1.5.0_01
export JAVA_HOME
PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export PATH
then save it.
- Then to make sure it works type this: java -version
- Adding Java Support to Firefox 0.93 (as delivered with Warty):
$ cd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins
$ sudo ln -s /usr/java/jre1.5.0_01/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so
