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Now that I've switched to Debian 4.0, I'm interested in getting the Sun Java 6 packages installed. If I recall correctly, there was quite a stir during JavaOne when the Ubuntu folks announced that some of Sun's Java products (the JDK, NetBeans and Glassfish) are available in their apt repositories and can be installed with a simple apt-get command.

I also remember someone mentioning that one can apt-get the same packages from Debian. But I did not save the link at the time. And now I can't find it. Searching for "Debian Sun JDK" on the Google yields many hits that are old news now (they were written prior to Sun open sourced their Java). They usually outline the thirteen steps that one has to get through to get the Sun JDK installed.

About the only thing that's relevant is this blurb from NewInEtch page on Debian Wiki:

NewInEtch: Sun Java 5.0 - sun-java5-bin, sun-java5-demo, sun-java5-doc, sun-java5-fonts, sun-java5-jdk, sun-java5-jre, sun-java5-plugin, sun-java5-source (non-free)

So my question today is simply this: What is the Debian way of installing Sun's Java 6 JDK?