HowTo: Install Sun Java 6 JDK on Strato-V-Power-Server with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

The apt sources of the default Ubuntu 8.04 installation of the Strato V-power servers are not set to multiverse. So when you want to install the sun-java packages, you have to add multiverse.

For this just do the following:

vi /etc/apt/sources.list


and add the string "multiverse" at the end of every 'deb' line.
The result should look like this:

# See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy
# Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs
# CDROMs are managed through the apt-cdrom tool.

deb ftp://ftp.stratoserver.net/pub/linux/ubuntu hardy main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src ftp://ftp.stratoserver.net/pub/linux/ubuntu hardy main restricted universe multiverse

deb ftp://ftp.stratoserver.net/pub/linux/ubuntu hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src ftp://ftp.stratoserver.net/pub/linux/ubuntu hardy-updates main restricted universe multiverse

deb ftp://ftp.stratoserver.net/pub/linux/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src ftp://ftp.stratoserver.net/pub/linux/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse

Then do the following commands:

apt-get update



apt-get install sun-java6-jdk


In my case there was the following error:

#
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb7e5f8e3, pid=30320, tid=3084712848
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (10.0-b23 interpreted mode linux-x86)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libc.so.6+0x698e3] cfree+0x73
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#


followed by some cryptic vm arguments and:


--------------- P R O C E S S ---------------

Java Threads: ( => current thread )

Other Threads:

=>0x08be2800 (exited) Thread [stack: 0xb7d80000,0xb7dd0000] [id=30321]

VM state:not at safepoint (not fully initialized)

VM Mutex/Monitor currently owned by a thread: None

and this:

VM Arguments:
jvm_args: -Xshare:dump -Xmx2m -XX:PermSize=128m
java_command:
Launcher Type: SUN_STANDARD

Environment Variables:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.07/jre/lib/i386/client:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.07/jre/lib/i386:/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.07/jre/../lib/i386
SHELL=/bin/bash

And in the end this:


--------------- S Y S T E M ---------------

OS:lenny/sid

uname:Linux 2.6.18-028stab059.3 #1 SMP Wed Oct 15 12:01:16 MSD 2008 i686
libc:glibc 2.7 NPTL 2.7
rlimit: STACK 10240k, CORE 0k, NPROC 16375, NOFILE 1024, AS infinity
load average:0.19 0.05 0.01

CPU:total 2 (1 cores per cpu, 2 threads per core) family 15 model 2 stepping 9, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2, ht

Memory: 4k page, physical 5140812k(5048016k free), swap 0k(0k free)

vm_info: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (10.0-b23) for linux-x86 JRE (1.6.0_07-b06), built on Jun 10 2008 01:33:02 by "java_re" with gcc 3.2.1-7a (J2SE release)

time: Sat Dec 6 12:52:48 2008
elapsed time: 0 seconds

After I typed this:


/# update-alternatives --config java
---
Es gibt 3 Alternativen, die »java« bereitstellen.

Auswahl Alternative
-----------------------------------------------
1 /usr/bin/gij-4.2
*+ 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj/jre/bin/java
3 /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

Drücken Sie die Eingabetaste, um die Vorgabe[*] beizubehalten,
oder geben Sie die Auswahlnummer ein: 3

I choosed 3 as you can see, and it gave me the following message:


Verwende »/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java«, um »java« bereitzustellen.


Now I typed:

java -version


And I got:

java version "1.6.0_07"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_07-b06)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 10.0-b23, mixed mode)


So it seems that everything is runnig as it should, even If there was an error message after the installation.