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Installing Java x64 in Ubuntu

  1. Download jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin jre-6u12-linux-x64.bin (hosted locally)
  2. mkdir /usr/lib/jvm (might already exist)
  3. sudo mv jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin /usr/lib/jvm/
  4. cd /usr/lib/jvm/
  5. sudo chmod a+x jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin
  6. sudo ./jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin
  7. sudo rm -r /usr/lib/jvm/jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin
  8. sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.6.0_14/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib64/firefox-addons/plugins/
  9. killall firefox

Restart firefox,  it’s good to go.  Tested it with Wordle and GoToMyPC and didn’t have any issues at all – every other Java install method I’ve used hasn’t worked.

Installed & tested on:  Ubuntu 8.10,  9.04,  9.10 Alpha 2


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Post a comment — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Sunday, February 22, 2009, at 2:02 am by Kyle. Filed in howto, install and tagged , , , .

3 Comments

  1. Brad

    Thanks I been looking for a good way to do this since everything I tried only worked on some website. Now that update 13 is out the how to just needs 12 renamed to 13.

    Posted on 28-Mar-09 at 3:50 pm | Permalink
  2. Kyle

    Updated this for 14 and rehosted the 14 bin locally for wget to avoid the Java prompting via their site.

    Posted on 07-Jul-09 at 11:34 pm | Permalink
  3. Arber

    i know ppl are going to be like wtf iwth the bin: http://yokohead.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/jre-6u14-linux-x64.bin heres the link his link is broken.

    Posted on 25-Jul-09 at 7:47 pm | Permalink

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