How to Install Sun Java JDK6 On Fedora 17/18

                                        How To Install Sun Java JDK6 On Fedora17/18

The following are the steps to install a Sun JDK6 in Fedora. 

Step-1: Download the Java Jdk6 from the below link:Download. 

After downloading you can get the rpm file( for example jdk-6u35-linux-x64-rpm.bin )

Step-2: Open terminal and copy the above file into any location. I am copying the above rpm file into following location
[ranga@ranga java]$ pwd
/home/ranga/install/java

[ranga@ranga java]$ ./jdk-6u35-linux-x64-rpm.bin
bash: ./jdk-6u35-linux-x64-rpm.bin: Permission denied
The above error you can get because of there is no permission to execute the above rpm file.
[ranga@ranga java]# chmod +x jdk-6u35-linux-x64-rpm.bin
Change to root user by using su command
[ranga@ranga java]$ su
Password:
[root@ranga java]# chmod +x jdk-6u35-linux-x64-rpm.bin
[root@ranga java]# ./jdk-6u35-linux-x64-rpm.bin
Unpacking...
Checksumming...
Extracting...
UnZipSFX 5.50 of 17 February 2002, by Info-ZIP (Zip-Bugs@lists.wku.edu).
  inflating: jdk-6u35-linux-amd64.rpm 
  inflating: sun-javadb-common-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm 
  inflating: sun-javadb-core-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm 
  inflating: sun-javadb-client-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm 
  inflating: sun-javadb-demo-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm 
  inflating: sun-javadb-docs-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm 
  inflating: sun-javadb-javadoc-10.6.2-1.1.i386.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:jdk                    ########################################### [100%]
Unpacking JAR files...
 rt.jar...
 jsse.jar...
 charsets.jar...
 tools.jar...
 localedata.jar...
 plugin.jar...
 javaws.jar...
 deploy.jar...
Installing JavaDB
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:sun-javadb-common      ########################################### [ 17%]
   2:sun-javadb-core        ########################################### [ 33%]
   3:sun-javadb-client      ########################################### [ 50%]
   4:sun-javadb-demo        ########################################### [ 67%]
   5:sun-javadb-docs        ########################################### [ 83%]
   6:sun-javadb-javadoc     ########################################### [100%]

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Press Enter to continue.....

Done.
[root@ranga java]# 

Now your installation is complete.

Step-3: Now you need to set the environment variables
There are two ways to set environment variables to the user wise.
1. Only particular user by using .bash_profile
2. Set to common to all users by using .profile
I am setting the the path to only particular user by using .bash_profile
Go to your home directory
 
[root@ranga java]$ cd
[root@ranga java]$ pwd
/home/ranga
[root@ranga ~]$ vi .bash_profile 
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
        . ~/.bashrc
fi

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin:$HOME/bin
#export PATH

JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_35"
export JAVA_HOME

export PATH=${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
unset USERNAME

[root@ranga~]$. .bash_profile
Now check the JAVA_HOME setted properly or not by using following command.
 
[root@ranga~]$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_35
 
Step-4: Removing Open JDK

[root@ranga jdk1.6.0_35]# rpm -qa | grep java 
sun-javadb-core-10.6.2-1.1.i386 
sun-javadb-docs-10.6.2-1.1.i386 
tzdata-java-2013b-2.fc17.noarch 
sun-javadb-client-10.6.2-1.1.i386 
sun-javadb-javadoc-10.6.2-1.1.i386 
sun-javadb-common-10.6.2-1.1.i386 
java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.19-2.3.9.1.fc17.x86_64 
sun-javadb-demo-10.6.2-1.1.i386 
[root@ranga jdk1.6.0_35]# rpm -e --nodeps java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.19-2.3.9.1.fc17.x86_64
[root@ranga jdk1.6.0_35]# rpm -qa | grep java
sun-javadb-core-10.6.2-1.1.i386
sun-javadb-docs-10.6.2-1.1.i386
tzdata-java-2013b-2.fc17.noarch
sun-javadb-client-10.6.2-1.1.i386
sun-javadb-javadoc-10.6.2-1.1.i386
sun-javadb-common-10.6.2-1.1.i386
sun-javadb-demo-10.6.2-1.1.i386

Final step is reboot your system. 
[root@ranga jdk1.6.0_35]# reboot
After rebooting check once again which java installed.
[ranga@ranga ~]$ which java
/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_35/bin/java
[ranga@ranga ~]$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_35"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_35-b10)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.10-b01, mixed mode)