UPDATE: [01-May-2012] It appears that this PPA repo is currently broken (does not allow to get GPG key and has unmet dependencies on x84_64). It appears that the install on i386 systems does work anyway if you ignore the GPG key error, but I wouldn’t install in that case as PPA installs are security risk enough without GPG errors.
UPDATE: [11-May-2012] The reason the PPA does not work is that it has been disabled by Ubuntu due to a licensing issue with (not hard to guess) Oracle. Flexion.org have however created a script (hosted on Github) to allow the automated update of Java 6 for those who still require it as a dependency.
wget https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6/raw/0.2.1/oab-java6.sh -O oab-java6.sh
chmod +x oab-java6.sh
sudo ./oab-java6.sh
Hat tip to Martin Wimpress from Flexion !
UPDATE: [07-Aug-2012] Thanks to a comment from Pierre-Yves Langlois this seems to be the best method (uses the latest version of the Flexion script from Github rather than the version referenced above)
sudo apt-get purge sun-java* #You need to do that if you want the mozilla plugin to work without conflict with java7 for instance.
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6.git
cd ~/src/oab-java6
sudo ./oab-java.sh
Then when its finished, install java:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jdk
You can follow the installation process with:
tail -f ~/src/oab-java6/oab-java.sh.log
Note: If you do not need Java 6 it’s much safer to stick to the current Oracle Java 7 release.
This is an update to the Java6 install on 11.10 since the previous PPA repository has not been updated. To install on Precise Pangolin you need to add the following repository
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flexiondotorg/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin
EDIT: [01-May-2012] since there seem to be many comments about the repo not working here’s the manual process (since I can’t find any working PPA that is actually maintained).
Download the Linux .bin install (32 or 64bit) from Oracle’s site Java Archive.
#change permissions to allow execute
chmod a+x jdk-6u[current_version_number]-linux-i586.bin
#run the installer file
./jdk-6u[current_version_number]-linux-i586.bin
Note: you obviously need to also maintain the Java6 updated manually.
Its not working
“Executing: gpg –ignore-time-conflict –no-options –no-default-keyring –secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.S76M7P9SkP –trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg –keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80/ –recv tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted
gpg: “tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted” not a key ID: skipping”
Doesn’t seem to work for me. I get this confusing stuff:
Executing: gpg –ignore-time-conflict –no-options –no-default-keyring –secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.R3lKxmFkgn –trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg –keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80/ –recv tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted
gpg: “tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted” not a key ID: skipping
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flexiondotorg/java
[sudo] password for username:
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted
More info: https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/java
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
Executing: gpg –ignore-time-conflict –no-options –no-default-keyring –secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.VGrsnITKUy –trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg –keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg –keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80/ –recv tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted
gpg: “tag:launchpad.net:2008:redacted” not a key ID: skipping
Not working :(
@Eccentric.Ash – see the note on the top of the article. Repo seems broken. Worked during beta.
gpg key error… but software can installed…
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I get an error after executing this line: sudo ./oab-java6.sh
during the step: “Downloading jdk-6u33-linux-i586.bin : http://: Invalid host name.”
Any ideas? I went to the Github project site but did not see any issues listed related to this so it must be something I’m doing wrong.
Thanks!
I am a near novice in Linux but just used the instructions from the second block above …
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flexiondotorg/java ….
Result is immediate success – brilliant!
The repositary must now be working again and downloads in my run of Synaptic where the appropriate files (sun-java6-bin, sun-java6-jdk, sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-plugin) are all shown as installed.
Moreover, it runs the sometimes reluctant ADVFN monitor pages where my attempts with the officially offered java versions failed.
For all that (and I digress) I find precise an obscure implementation of Ubuntu – it took me 20 minutes to find the Terminal! I much prefer hardy or lucid. They also appear to run a lot smoother/faster – probably more suited to my older machine.
Renaming ‘precise’ to ‘oneiric’ in synaptic allowed me to use the ferramroberto ppa under lubuntu 12.04. While it is probably not the best way but at least it works. And for me it far better than messing with binary installers.
during the step: “Downloading jdk-6u33-linux-i586.bin : http://: Invalid host name.”
anybody have the idea?
modified oab-java6.sh at line 268 and following, forcing version 6 update 32, in this way:
# Determine the currently supported Java version and update
#JAVA_VER=`echo ${DEB_VERSION} | cut -d’.’ -f1`
JAVA_VER=”6″
#JAVA_UPD=`echo ${DEB_VERSION} | cut -d’.’ -f2 | cut -d’-‘ -f1`
JAVA_UPD=”32″
this solved problem with “Downloading jdk-6u33-linux-i586.bin : http://: Invalid host name.”
but download page needs authentication and package will not be downloaded via script.
I’m trying to download package via normal browser and putting it into correct folder via scp.
I have successfully installed java6 with Flexion github script without the error “http:// invalid hostname”. Here is what I did:
sudo apt-get purge sun-java* #You need to do that if you want the mozilla plugin to work without conflict with java7 for instance.
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6.git
cd ~/src/oab-java6
sudo ./oab-java.sh
Then when its finished, install java:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-bin
You can follow the installation process with:
tail -f ~/src/oab-java6/oab-java.sh.log
After that, when I do a “java -version” from the console, I get this
java version “1.6.0_30”
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_30-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.5-b03, mixed mode)
And visit the java test site to test the plugin: http://www.java.com/fr/download/testjava.jsp
Pierre-Yves
Thanks Pierre-Yves, that worked a treat!
Thanks Pierre-Yves! Solution you provided working perfectly :)
Pierre-Yves, Solution you provided working perfectly for me THANKS SO MUCH !!!!!!!!!
Hi
Thank you for the solution.
If I’m not mistaken the provided apt-get line in the final solution only install the JRE and not the JDK. I think that the correct install line should look like this:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
SUF
@SUF: thanks – updated above.
@Pierre-Yves Langlois: thanks for sharing ! Edited the article above.
Works like a charm!! Thank you Pierre-Yves!!!
Worked perfectly. Thank you very much.
Looks like a new version got pushed out and the script doesn’t properly support it. Script only works upto 6u33 but 6u34 is out now and script tries to download it but can’t.
Currently on vers 6u35 you can replace in the script
# wget http://www.oracle.com/${DOWNLOAD_INDEX} -O /tmp/oab-download.html >> "$log" 2>&1 &
wget http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk6u35-downloads-1836443.html -O /tmp/oab-download.html >> "$log" 2>&1 &
@ jeff
Works great. Thanx for update :)
@Jeff
Thanks for the correction…
Can we fix the original script?
Pierre-Yves solution worked like a charm just yesterday.
Nevertheless I wanted to share some advice. Please be sure to clean (or just wipe) the content of /var/local/oab before yo (re)start. In our case we ended in a very strange situation in which at least one of the .bin files from Oracle’s site was marked as downloaded successfully, but found appended to itself. We guess it has to do with “wget arguments”, but we could not investigate further at this time. From there, the build phase failed.
why do you recommend installing
sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jdk
those aren’t listed in flexion instructions
The _only_ reason I’m installing sun6 is for brother’s lametard Spawnscape / runescape
@Julian
the -c switch will accomplish that
@windows refugee on mint; The only reason for the sun-java6-jdk is that I generally need the JDK for my work. Should not be needed just for the runtime.
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