Installing Java 5

Travelled to Java.sun.com and search for the download JDK 5.0. I had to allow connections from port 443 in order to download the self extracting binary.

This installs the software into "/usr/share"

  chmod 755 jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin
  cd /usr/share
  sudo /home/ericp/Software/jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-i585.bin