Installing jdk?
Glenn Holmer
shadowm at lyonlabs.org
Fri Oct 22 10:06:00 UTC 2010
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 20:59 -0400, A. Jorge Garcia wrote:
> Is Synaptic the option on the desktop under accessories: Software
> Installation Center?
System / Administration / Synaptic Package Manager
> In the past, on older Debian distros, I downloaded an executable *.bin
> file directly from java.sun.com, extracted it in a system folder like
> /usr/bin and change the /etc/profile so it would be available to all
> users. Can I do that in Ubuntu? I couldn't find the profile....
You can put a profile script in /etc/profile.d (has to end with .sh)
that does something like this:
export PATH=/where/you/put/java/bin:$PATH
See also this link:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Sun%20Java%20moved%20to%
20the%20Partner%20repository
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