Installing JAVA JDK/JRE on Debian/Ubuntu with ease

I recently commenced the third installation of JAVA on one of my Debian-Boxes and couldn’t remember any of the exact commands, had to google again, ended up with 8 open tabs all saying something different and so wrote this small bash script to set up all necessary alternatives with “update-alternatives” automatically. Please note that there has to be either icedtea or openjdk installed to make all parts of this script work....

2013-08-13 · 2 min · 260 words · Jan