How can I install Java from the command line only? [closed]

When I try to download the link directly using wget I get redirected to an error page. How can I download the official JDK from Oracle?

2 Answers

A better solution is to install default java:

sudo apt-get install default-jdk

This will install all of the latest packages for the default jdk product.

Do you want Oracle Java or is OpenJDK fine?

For example, to install OpenJDK version 1.6 of just the jre you would type

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre