Installing Processing in Ubuntu 12.04

Processing does not work with the default version of Java installed with Ubuntu (hrrr)
so you must install the one that does: the official Sun JDK 6 (or 7)

  1. Download the sun jdk 6 bin from here
  2. chmod +x jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin
  3. ./jdk-6u32-linux-x64.bin
  4. sudo mv jdk1.6.0_32 /usr/lib/jvm/
  5. sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32/bin/javac 1
    sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32/bin/java 1
    sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_32/bin/javaws 1
  6. sudo update-alternatives --config javac
    sudo update-alternatives --config java
    sudo update-alternatives --config javaws
Now you can get processing
  1. wget http://processing.googlecode.com/files/processing-1.5.1-linux.tgz
  2. tar xzvf processing-1.5.1-linux.tgz
  3. cd processing-1.5.1
  4. ./processing

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