I decided to make my system a little more open by replacing Sun’s Java with IcedTea:

• sudo apt-get install icedtea-java7-bin icedtea-java7-jre icedtea-java7-plugin
• sudo apt-get install icedtea-java7-jdk
  • I needed this for Eclipse, but if I didn’t I wouldn’t have installed it.
• sudo update-alternatives --config java
  • select: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-icedtea/jre/bin/java

I wish I could purge the sun-java packages but unfortunately a bug prevents that. Hopefully that will be fixed in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron).

I also have to admit that as a tea drinker and not a coffee drinker I do like the name IcedTea.