Installing Oracle (Sun) JDK 6 on Ubuntu 10.04

To install Oracle (Sun) JDK 6 on Ubuntu do the following steps

First to get the add-apt-repository support do the following command
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Then

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
# to set this as default java version
sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun 

Finally do a test with java -version

Almost the complete description of this installation was taken from the blog post http://thilina.gunarathne.org/2011/02/installing-sun-oracle-jdk-6-on-ubuntu.html

These steps were successfully executed on Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit. However in the original post this was done on Ubuntu 10.10.

It might seem as a bit unnecessary to duplicate most of the steps from an already existing blog post. However this is more for my own reference and on occasion blogs and useful posts disappear.