How to Install JDK6 or JDK7 in Linux

You can install the JDk7 in Linux step by step as follows:

1. Download compressed file

the 32-bit or 64-bit Linux  "Compressed binary file", It has a ".tar.gz"file extention. for example, "jdk-7u9-linux-x64.tar.gz " which I installed.  "[Java-version]-x64.tar.gz"  indicated that it is for 64bit.

download website:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7u9-downloads-1859576.html (JDK 7)

download website:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk6u37-downloads-1859587.html (JDK6)

2. Uncompressed it

tar -xvf jdk-7u9-linux-x64.tar.gz 

if is the JDK6, the file is "jdk-6u37-linux-x64.bin". you should use the following command:

sh jdk-6u37-linux-x64.bin

3. Move the uncompressed file to /usr/bin/ directory

sudo mv ./jdk1.6.0_37 /usr/local/src/

4.Now run

sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/local/src/jdk1.6.0_37/bin/java" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/local/src/jdk1.6.0_37/bin/javac" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javaws" "javaws" "/usr/local/src/jdk1.6.0_37/bin/javaws" 1

sudo update-alternatives --config java

sudo update-alternatives --config javac
sudo update-alternatives --config javaws

5. Configure the environment variable

打开/etc/profile，使用如下命令

sudo gedti /etc/profile

然后在其中加入如下的内容

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/src/jdk1.6.0_37
export JRE_HOME=/usr/local/src/jdk1.6.0_37/jre
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$JRE_HOME/bin
export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib:$CLASSPATH

保存并退出，输入如下命令，使以上设置生效

source /etc/profile

通过输入export来查看是否设置成功

输入java -version来查看java版本