Need to install sun-java5-jdk on ubuntu 11.04

Question

I've found debian package on http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/devel/sun-java5-jdk It depends on sun-java5-jre. So I'm going to http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/sun-java5-jre to install it first. But it depends on sun-java5-jdk!! How is it possible to install???

Answer 1

Hi just download all 4 hardy packages (from the same location you have posted [i can't post more than 2 urls, sorry]) into one directory.

• sun-java5-bin_1.5.0-15-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
• sun-java5-demo_1.5.0-15-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
• sun-java5-jdk_1.5.0-15-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
• sun-java5-jre_1.5.0-15-0ubuntu1_all.deb

And then run the command

sudo dpkg -i sun-java5*.deb

And after this has finished (i think it will complain about unixodbc and some things) run

sudo apt-get -f install

Then you should have a running java 1.5.

Cheers

Answer 2

I also needed to install java5 (in order to compile froyo on a 32 bits system) on ubuntu 11.04 and this did the trick in my case:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy multiverse"
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates multiverse"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jdk

It took a while, some unrelated warnings were fired, but at the end it was installed. After the installation was finished I just did:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

and switched to java5, which was one of the alternatives.

You should be able to go back to java 6 after that just by issuing an uptade-alternatives call.