How to install java 6 on CentOS 5 and remove other JDK, JRE version?

At the time of writing this article Java 6 (update 37) was available at http://www.java.com/en/download/manual_v6.jsp First set up a folder where you want to install java $ cd /opt $ wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/6u37-b06/jdk-6u37-linux-x64-rpm.bin $ chmod +x jdk-6u37-linux-x64-rpm.bin $ ./jdk-6u37-linux-x64-rpm.bin (more…)