Java version error

[subakaran]

Hi
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts,

Using this command , I installed java successfully.
so now i want to test first.
I typed java version command in terminal

But i got error.

ERROR REPORT:
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: version
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: version
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java: 200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.j ava:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:3 07)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launche r.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 52)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoade r.java:320)
Could not find the main class: version. Program will exit.

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[jocko]

Hi
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts,

Using this command , I installed java successfully.
so now i want to test first.
I typed java version command in terminal

But i got error.

ERROR REPORT:
--------------------------

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: version
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: version
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java: 200)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.j ava:188)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:3 07)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launche r.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 52)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoade r.java:320)
Could not find the main class: version. Program will exit.
That's because "java version" is not the correct command. Try:
java -version

[subakaran]

Hi,
Thankss.

Actually by mistake I typed wrong command java version.

Correct command:java -version.

I missed -(HYPHEN) before version command.

Thanks for your reply