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Asked: 2026-05-31T22:56:18+00:00

EDIT I added this note to explain why I keep this question here. I

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EDIT

I added this note to explain why I keep this question here. I added “Android” as keyword and I’d like to know whether someone else has tried to download the code and how it is possible to work around this problem.
I fear that if I ask Ubuntu they would suggest me to use OpenJDK but the question is: did someone use that SDK to build Android code?

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Sometime ago I downloaded the android source code on Ubuntu 10 64bit.
I had problems but at the end I managed to get everything working.
Now I’m trying to do it again on a fresh install of the same Ubuntu version but I’m having a problem.

Although I followed the instruction here I keep having the error:

Package sun-java6-jdk is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package sun-java6-jdk has no installation candidate

Googling gives you a lot of results that all give you the same solution:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"   
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

I did it but it didn’t work.

I’m running Ubuntu on a VM under VMWare.

I have also tried to add another source:

sudo add-apt-repository “deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner

but it didn’t help

Maybe the answer is here:

Answer in SuperUser

but it is weird that on the Android portal there isn’t any mention of it

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  1. Editorial Team

    The problem is that you should now download JDK manually. Somewhere I found these steps and it worked fine in my case:

    1. Download Java SE 6 JDK for Linux x86 self-extracting binary (if you work with 32bit platform)
    2. From the download folder, make the file executable chmod a+x jdk-6u<version>-linux-i586.bin
    3. Move the file to the jvm folder sudo mv jdk-6u<version>-linux-i586.bin /usr/lib/jvm/
    4. Change to the jvm folder and run the self-extracting binary cd /usr/lib/jvm
    5. sudo ./jdk-6u<version>-linux-i586.bin
    6. Everything will be extracted to a new jdk1.6 folder and you
      can delete the .bin file now.
    7. Make a symbolic link to the new java binary in the alternatives
      folder. sudo ln -s -b /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6<version>/jre/bin/java
      /etc/alternatives/java

    8. Append in your ~/.bashrc

      JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.<version>/

      PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

    9. Double-check the version java -version

    Remember that you can work only with JDK v6 version.

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