GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
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Sun Java

Installed Sun's jdk 1.6.0:

# mkdir /usr/local/sun
# cd /usr/local/sun
# sh /home/share/java-6u1-linux-amd64.bin
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# update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac\
  /usr/local/sun/jdk1.6.0/bin/javac 120
# update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java\
  /usr/local/sun/jdk1.6.0/bin/java 120

We should then really do the same for all of the other binaries in /usr/local/sun/jdk1.6.0/bin, but a quick shortcut is to simply put them all into /usr/local/bin:

# cd /usr/local/bin
# ln -s /usr/local/sun/jdk1.6.0/bin/* .