Introduction
In the previous article we have discussed how to install OpenJDK java on ubuntu from the standard Ubuntu repository or Oracle’s Java JDK 7 using Personal Package Archives ( PPA ). This article will cover installation of Oracle Java JDK 7 from a source package or by converting RPM Java package to the Debian software package format.
Download Oracle Java JDK 7
First, we need to download Oracle Java JDK source package from the official Oracle website. Navigate to JDK Downloads, accept license terms and download jdk-7<version>-linux-<architecture>.tar.gz. Current version of this source package is jdk-7u11-linux-x64.tar.gz and this is also what we are going to use in this tutorial. Store this tarball source package into your home directory or some other arbitrary place.