#oracle jdk

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Oracle comes out with Java 11

There was a time when Oracle’s releases would come years apart. But the company is changing this with its second big release this year. It recently unveil

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Download Java SE 6 JDK for Linux x86 self-extracting binary At the time of writing, the file I'm using is jdk-6u32-linux-i586.bin

From the download folder, make the file executable chmod a+x jdk-6u32-linux-i586.bin

Apparently there isn't a jvm folder anymore, so create one. sudo mkdir /usr/lib/jvm

Move the file to the jvm folder sudo mv jdk-6u32-linux-i586.bin /usr/lib/jvm/

Change to the jvm folder and run the self-extracting binary cd /usr/lib/jvm sudo ./jdk-6u32-linux-i586.bin Everything will be extracted to a new jdk1.6.0_32 folder and you can delete the .bin file now.

Make symbolic links to the new java binary. sudo ln -s -b /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32/jre/bin/java /etc/alternatives/java sudo ln -s -b /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32/jre/bin/java /usr/bin/java

Double-check the version java -version

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