Oracle JDK 6 is no longer maintained.
It is not updated with the latest security patches and are not recommended for use in production.
You can however still download them from the Oracle Java Archive
Oracle themselves have the official guide to install their JDK - below is based upon those instructions.
Download the 32bit or 64bit Linux "compressed binary file" - it has a ".bin" file extension
Give it permissions to execute and extract it
chmod a+x [version]-linux-i586.bin
./[version]-linux-i586.bin
During installation it will ask you to register - press ENTER. Firefox will open with the registration page. Registration is optional.
JDK 6 package is extracted into ./jdk1.6.0_x directory, for example ./jdk1.6.0_30.
Lets rename it:
mv jdk1.6.0_30 java-6-oracle
Now move the JDK 6 directory to /usr/lib
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/jvm
sudo mv java-6-oracle /usr/lib/jvm
switch to Oracle JDK 6
webupd8.googlecode.com hosts a nice-easy script to help with this.
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wget http://webupd8.googlecode.com/files/update-java-0.5b
chmod +x update-java-0.5b
sudo ./update-java-0.5bdon't worry - 0.5b refers to the script version - not the version of java!
