How to install all the packages in openJDK

ssc1478 ssc1478 at aim.com
Thu May 5 01:48:25 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Varuna Seneviratna
<varunaseneviratna at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 May 2011 06:29, ssc1478 <ssc1478 at aim.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Varuna Seneviratna
>> <varunaseneviratna at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I installed java using the command [QUOTE]sudo apt-get install
>>> openjdk-6-jdk[/QUOTE].I want to install the API documentation.
>>>
>>> How do I do that?
>>>
>>> Fedora in the page http://openjdk.java.net/install/#fedora describes
>>> How to install openjdk plus using the command [QUOTE]su -c "yum
>>> install java-1.6.0-openjdk*"[/QUOTE] everything including the API
>>> Documentation.In the Ubuntu section
>>> http://openjdk.java.net/install/#ubuntu it says how to insatll
>>> openjdk-6-jre, I changed the jre to jdk and jdk was installed But I am
>>> not able to insatll the API Documentaion.I tried using the command
>>> [QUOTE]sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk*[/QUOTE] But the message I
>>> get is [QUOTE]openjdk-6-jdk is already the newest version[/QUOTE]From
>>> the above scnario I am not able to conclude whether
>>>
>>> 1 How to insatll all the packages in openJDK
>>> 2 Is the openjdk API Documentation installed? and if it is installed
>>> How can I find the where it is to access it using Firefox
>>>
>>
>> I searched my laptop for javadoc with locate:
>>
>> phil at jane:~$ locate javadoc
>> /etc/alternatives/javadoc
>> /etc/alternatives/javadoc.1.gz
>> /usr/bin/javadoc
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/javadoc
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/man/ja_JP.eucJP/man1/javadoc.1.gz
>> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/man/man1/javadoc.1.gz
>> /usr/share/man/man1/javadoc.1.gz
>> /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/javadoc
>>
>> hth,
>> Phil
>>
>
> Where the .html documentation?, I am not able to locate it
>

Ok, you need to install openjdk-6-doc:
# sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-doc

then the files will be in:
file:///usr/share/doc/openjdk-6-jre-headless/jdk/api/javadoc/doclet/index.html

The javadoc.1.gz is for the man page, I think.

Phil




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