Theodore Nguyen-Cao

When I first got my slice, I had it setup with java and tomcat. Apparently, I updated or rebuilt my slice and forgot to install those two again. Too bad I didn't take good notes because I totally forgot how to do it. So this time, I'm going to document it via this post. I am currently running Ubuntu Feisty (v. 7.04). You can find out what version you're running by running the following command: The usual apt-get command allows me to install sun-j2re1.4. That's not very helpful if I want to compile java code off of my slice or set it up to be a continuous build server. I remember that I had to add a specific repository in order to be able to install the Java SDK via apt-get. After some digging around, I came up with the following: Paste the following into the file: The Ubuntu docs recommend enabling the universe/multiverse security/updates repositories to prevent version mismatches during installs or upgrades but I didn't run into any issues proceding without them. Save and exit out of vi. Next, run apt-get should be pulling down an updated list of installable packages. So if you type and then hit TAB, you should get a list of installable sun packages. I decided to install Java 6.0 SDK. It will begin to download and install the SDK. You will have to accept a license. Just hit TAB to get select "OK" and hit enter. Once it completes, you should be able to confirm the JDK was installed successfully. The next post will lay out steps to install Apache Tomcat.