Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@Yogendra0Sharma
Created January 12, 2017 10:52
Show Gist options
  • Select an option

  • Save Yogendra0Sharma/b2691a04b2211b51bcf9acacf17e9dee to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.

Select an option

Save Yogendra0Sharma/b2691a04b2211b51bcf9acacf17e9dee to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Install Java on Ubuntu

SDK

  • Download the appropriate tarball from oracle
  • Extract in a temporary location
  • Move extracted folder to /usr/lib/jvm : sudo mv /path/to/jdk1.8.0_20 /usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8
  • Create File /etc/profile.d/oraclejdk.sh with following contents... ($ sudo vim /etc/profile.d/oraclejdk.sh)
export J2SDKDIR=/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8
export J2REDIR=/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/jre
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/jre/bin
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8
export DERBY_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/db
  • Run: source /etc/profile.d/oraclejdk.sh # OR REBOOT

Command Line

  • Create the following symbolic links
  • sudo ln -s
  • sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/jre/bin/java /usr/bin/java
  • sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/bin/javac /usr/bin/javac
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment