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How To Install Oracle Java 7 (JDK) In Ubuntu

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As you probably know, Oracle Java (JVM/JDK) will not be available in the Debian / Ubuntu repositories anymore because Oracle retired the "Operating System Distributor License for Java" (JDL) and the only release available in the repositories will be OpenJDK. You can still download it for free, but the installation is tricky, so here's how to do it in Ubuntu.

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Alien works fine converting their provided RPM to a .deb

If you are really too lazy to convert it yourself I've left a copy on my downloads server here: http://downloads.bodhilinux.com/jeff91/misc/jdk_1.7.0-1_i386...

~Jeff
I was under the impression that there are official packages of Java 7 in Ubuntu? At least they're in Debian, with some Ubuntu stuff in the changelogs ;)
> I was under the impression that there are official packages of Java 7 in Ubuntu?

Those are openjdk 7 ones, not the Oracle packages. There are some non-free parts in latter and other differences between the two packages.
I had trouble with openjdk and GoToMyPC. Sun Java does work.
Oh, OpenJDK, yeah... I forgot :) I haven't had any problems with it and I'm a Java developer. Go figure :)
jezuch So you must be one of those mythical developers who actually writes to the standard, not the special "our product only" features that break it...

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