» TULH: latest openJDK 6 on openSUSE

(TULH = Trivial (or pointless ?) Ubuntu-Like Howto)

Purpose

Here is how to install the latest openJDK (the GPL'd branch of Sun's Java Virtual Machine) version 6 (the currently stable branch) on openSUSE 11.0-11.1

As root

You can simply copy/paste those blocks of commands into a shell. But note that they must be executed as the root user and, hence, first open a terminal (e.g. konsole on KDE, gnome-terminal on GNOME, xterm, urxvt, putty, whatever does the job), switch to the root user using the following command:

su -

Then enter the password of the root user when prompted to do so.

Install the JRE

VERSION=$(grep ^VERSION /etc/SuSE-release|cut -f3 -d" ") zypper addrepo -r \ http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Java:/openjdk6:/Factory/\ openSUSE_$VERSION/Java:openjdk6:Factory.repo zypper refresh Java_openjdk6_Factory zypper install java-1_6_0-openjdk

Install the Java browser plugin

If you also want to install the browser plugin (to run Java applets and Webstart):

zypper install java-1_6_0-openjdk-plugin

Install the Java Development Kit

And if you also want to install the JDK to compile Java sources:

zypper install java-1_6_0-openjdk-devel