Install the Oracle JDK 6 in Linux

Due to license issues Ubuntu will no longer distribute Oracle's JDK and JRE. There are no more supported java releases from Ubuntu - Ubuntu officially supports OpenJDK and OpenJRE implementation of Java which is the base for Oracle's own implementation. The instructions below provide a guide to install the official Oracle JDK 6. You will need to regularly update this manually to ensure your installation maintains recommended security and stability fixes. 1, Download the 32bit or 64bit Linux "compressed binary file" - it has a ".bin" file extension 2,Give it permissions to execute              chmod 777 [version]-linux-i586.bin 3, Extract it.               ./[version]-linux-i586.bin 4, JDK 6 package is extracted into ./jdk1.6.0_x directory, for example ./jdk1.6.0_30. 5,   Just rename it to jdk and move to /usr/lib/jvm        mv jdk1.6.0_30 jdk       sudo mkdir /usr/lib/jvm      sudo mv jdk /usr/lib/jvm 6, Update system paths in /etc/environment                      JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin export JAVA_HOME export JAVA_BIN export PATH ...................................................................................................................................Vijay.