installing java?

[mick_86]

any ideas how i can install java to ubuntu so i can use online applications that require it?

[danjahner]

There is a community doc with that info, which includes the browser plug-in installation.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java

[stchman]

any ideas how i can install java to ubuntu so i can use online applications that require it?

Yes, enter the following in a terminal:

sudo apt-get -y install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin

This works for 32 and 64 bit.

Remember for Lucid and later you need to enable the "Partner" repository. Java stuff was moved to this repository.

[cap10Ibraim]

note that if you already installed ubuntu restricted extras this will install also the jre required to run the applications

[stchman]

note that if you already installed ubuntu restricted extras this will install also the jre required to run the applications

The restricted extras package installs the openJDK plugin. Yes, that one works, but the SUN/Oracle one is better.