Archive for October, 2010

Installing sun-java6 in Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat

Posted by BigWhale on 2010/10/31 in Linux | 2 comments

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat comes with open-java6. Sometimes you will also need Oracle Java which is now available in Ubuntu partner repositories. This can be done in few simple steps:

  • open Ubuntu Software Center
  • select Edit | Software Sources
  • select Other Software tab
  • select Canonical Partners and click on Close

If there is no Canonical Partners to select, then you might upgraded from Lucid to Maverick and this line got lost from the source.list. Make sure that you have these two lines in the /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu maverick partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu maverick partner

Now, you need to install java.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

If you only need the run-time environment, then you can use sun-java6-jre instead. There, you are all set now. You will probably want to export your JDK_HOME first.
Like this:

$ export JDK_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat Release Party

Posted by BigWhale on 2010/10/13 in Linux | 0 comments

Yesterday this particular Whale organized a release party for the latest Ubuntu 10.10 – Maverick Meerkat. The one and only release party here in our small country. Thanks to all the sponsors, who donated for the awesome t-shirts, drinks and the epic cake. Many, many thanks to Cyberpipe and Ubuntu.si people that helped with the event. Few pics are here and the cake is below.

One more event that will count in our favor when I apply for Ubuntu LoCo Team.

The cake was not a lie!