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Preparing your system
First you need to remove openjdk for this run the following command from your terminal
sudo apt-get purge openjdk*
If you installed java 7 from any other PPA and you are having problem with java then you have to do following steps before installing the PPA menctioned here
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/oracle-java7-installer*
sudo apt-get purge oracle-java7-installer*
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*java*
sudo apt-get update
Install oracle java 7 in ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
You can check the java version by searching java in dashboard
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Just great! the only answer, i’ve finally found to this problem…opensource java does not work…thanks
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This worked but I would recommend using the Ubuntu Software Center rather than purging file and applications.
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Alexander Reply:
May 1st, 2013 at 8:23 pm
USC uses just the same commands.
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Thanks a lot for the post. It worked for me!.
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Thank you so much !!! may the force be with you !
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Great, this tutorial is very good because was helped me a lot.
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thanks for the help
works on BT like this also
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Fantastic, thanks! Works on Ubuntu 11 also.
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Thank you man. Works on Ubuntu 13.04!
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