Install JRE on ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric)

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Note:- Please use one of the following method and each method install diffrent version of JRE

Method 1

Install openjdk using the following command from your terminal

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

Install Java for browser – firefox/chrome..

For running applets in your web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, you need to install icedtea plugin. Execute the following command from your terminal

sudo apt-get install icedtea6-plugin

Method 2

Install Oracle JRE Using PPA

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

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8 Responses

  1. m.nikic says:

    You should probably inform people that method 1 and method 2 install don’t install the same version of java runtime environment. (one is java 7, and one is java 6).

    Cheers.

  2. John K. says:

    The icedtea6-plugin package installs icedtea-plugin which gives you only Java 6 in your web-browsers, not Java 7!

  3. pedro says:

    fine, thanx.

  4. Alexh says:

    Does the oracle jre also needs the icedtea6-plugin (or similar) to work in the browser?

  5. aditya says:

    though i have installed sun-java6,applet & swing is not working in my ubuntu11.10 desktop.

  6. saif says:

    thx it worked !

  7. Nagaraju says:

    thank you it worked fine

  8. Shripad says:

    Even after installing by method 2 (everything went smoothly) when I execute the comand java-version at command prompt, it still says “command not found”. This is even after I restarted the machine. i understand if the JRE is installed correctly the command must return the version that is installed.

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