On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 14:23 +1300, David Merrick wrote: > Having downloaded the lastest version of Sun Java on to my Dual booted > Windows / Ubuntu computer do I now have to download Java on to Linux?
Yes, Java is the bit that changes. But you can use the same Java applications on both platforms, unless they've been written perversely. Use the proper Ubuntu packages as per http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ rather than the Sun install packages. Install the sun-java5-jdk for development, though this can be installed after the standard JRE. > How do you compile and run Java using Ubuntu? The best bet is to 'apt-get install eclipse' and use that for development under Linux. Once you've done that, I refer you to http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ecov/ and the like for getting stuck in. Vik :v)
