Oracle-Sun Java JDK7 How to Install and Getting Started on Linux Debian 6 Squeeze Gnome 32bit Easy Visual-Guide

The Tutorial shows you Step-by-STep How to Install and Getting-Started with the Oracle-Sun Official Java SE JDK for Debian 6 Squeeze GNOME i386 Desktop.

After Installing you will need to Use the update-alternatives Command Tool to Update your System Java to Oracle Java 1.7 JDK.

To the Article Bottom there is a Link for Quick Start with Java JDK 7 Development and also to Install the Java Web-Servers Tomcat 7 & JBoss 7 Servers on Debian Linux 6.

And this Visual Guide includes the Basic Screenshots of All GUI Steps involved.

The Content give Focus Only to the Essentials Instructions and Commands to make it Easier to Follow.

1. Here Download Oracle-Sun Java SE JDK:

   Oracle JDK i586 tar.gz
   Link to Download the Latest Oracle-Sun Java SE JDK 32-bit Linux Release

2. Find and Double-Click on the tar.gz Archive

   Extract it Into the /tmp Folder.

   

3. Open a Root Terminal Window
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

4. Relocate JDK 7

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   su 

   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

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   if [ ! -d "/usr/lib/jvm" ]; then mkdir /usr/lib/jvm; fi

   The above command is used to create a jvm directory if not already there.

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   sudo chown -R root:root /tmp/jdk1.7*

   Reiterate the Execution Permission over the Java binaries

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   chmod -R +x /tmp/jdk1.7*/bin

   Finally, Shift the Java contents with

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   mv /tmp/jdk1.7* /usr/lib/jvm/

5. Update System Java to 1.7

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   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7*/bin/java 1065

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   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7*/bin/javac 1065

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   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/jar jar /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7*/bin/jar 1065

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   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7*/bin/javaws 1065

6. Getting-Started with Java Development:

   Here Getting-Started Quickly with JDK

   Quick Start with Java JDK Development

Guides to Installing the Tomcat7 Server on Linux: