As I understand it, Oracle retired the Operating System Distributor's License for Java, meaning that Canonical could no longer include the JDK or JRE in their APT repositories. This means no more
sudo apt-get install sun-java-whatever
Recently, I ran into this trying to install Hadoop 1.03 on top of Ubuntu 12.04 Server. Canonical recommends installing OpenJDK instead, but according to Apache, bugs in how OpenJDK handles Generics might cause bugs in my MapReduce task. Unacceptable. What's more, Apache recommends Java 1.6 over 1.7.
I ran into a bunch of Google search results detailing how to install Java using PPA repositories, but I couldn't make any work. Finally, got fed up and decided to install Java the hard way.
Download Java
The first obvious step is to download the Java installer. I went here, clicked "Accept", and copied the hyperlink for Linux x64 (64-bit) (jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin). On my linux machine, I ran
wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/6u32-b05/jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin
A file, jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin appeared in my home directory. Per these instructions, I set the file executable and attempted to execute it.
chris@linux01:~/bar$ chmod +x jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin
chris@linux01:~/bar$ ./jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin
./jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin: line 1: html: No such file or directory
./jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin: line 2: head: No such file or directory
./jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin: line 3: title: No such file or directory
./jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin: line 4: META: No such file or directory
./jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin: line 5: link: No such file or directory
That's odd.
chris@linux01:~/bar$ head jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin
<html>
<head>
<title>Unauthorized Request</title>
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/errors/us/assets/hp-styles.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/errors/us/assets/master-master.css" />
<body style="margin: 0px" bgcolor=#ffffff>
<div id="banner">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
Oh, that makes sense. Oracle.com either hates wget or is storing a cookie saying "yes, this guy accepted the T's and C's."
Actually download Java
Easiest thing to do was just to download the .bin file onto my desktop and use SCP (WinSCP if you need) to move it to my server.
Install Java
I decided to install Java in /usr/local/java.
sudo mkdir /usr/local/java
sudo cp jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin /usr/local/java
cd /usr/local/java
sudo ./jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin
Unpacking...
Checksumming...
Extracting...
UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs@lists.wku.edu).
creating: jdk1.6.0_32/
and so forth.
Unpacking Java like this is effectively "installing" it, if you hate yourself and want to write out the path to Java every time.
Set Environmental Variables
I don't hate myself, so I set a couple of environmental variables, notably PATH, JAVA_HOME, and JDK_HOME. The first one allows you to just type
javac foo.java
java foo
as opposed to writing it all out, and the latter two are requested by Hadoop. I set these in my /etc/profile file. Add the following to the end of your /etc/profile:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.6.0_32
export JDK_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/jdk1.6.0_32/bin
Finally, run
source /etc/profile
There. Now Java is installed for all intents and purposes. Way to go. As an aside, I ran into some problems with JAVA_HOME as I was trying to install Hadoop, but I'll cover those later.
source /etc/profile
There. Now Java is installed for all intents and purposes. Way to go. As an aside, I ran into some problems with JAVA_HOME as I was trying to install Hadoop, but I'll cover those later.
And how you solved the problem that is not generated for the file /.jdk1.6.0_33.jinfo
ReplyDeletefor update-java-alternatives ?
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/update-java-alternatives.8.html#contenttoc4
Thanks. This rather reminds me of the early days of Java when I first started using it. At least now there are internet tutorials to help you out. Way to go Oracle, you've brought the platform back to 1993.
ReplyDelete1993? Java 1.0 was not release until 95.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(programming_language)#History
Thanks for this - I think you have a typo above. Instead of
ReplyDelete"export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local.java/jdk1.6.0_32/bin" it should be "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/java/jdk1.6.0_32/bin
You have a "." instead of a "/" between "local" and "java"
Good catch! Thanks!
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