Sun Java on Ubuntu 12

Sun Java is no longer available on Ubuntu packaging due to licensing issues with Oracle. OpenJDK is provided instead. One solution to this is to use the sun-update-jre package via Dunisoft. However, this did not meet my requirements as the package does not include javac.

My solution was to extract the bin file provided by Sun/Oracle by following the steps here. Do note to fix your symlinks for javadoc, javah and javap.

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32/bin/javac 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32/bin/java 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32/bin/javaws 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javadoc javadoc /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32/bin/javadoc 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javah javah /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32/bin/javah 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javap javap /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32/bin/javap 1

sudo update-alternatives --config javac
sudo update-alternatives --config java
sudo update-alternatives --config javaws
sudo update-alternatives --config javadoc
sudo update-alternatives --config javah
sudo update-alternatives --config javap