Hi Philip, I think they chose to go with OpenJDK bc Sun's is not open source.
Here's what we did on ubuntu 10.04 (if youre using a different debian distro, you can prob do something very similar): # this install gives us the convenient add-apt-repository command sudo apt-get install python-software-properties -yqq # java is no longer in the main ubuntu package archives...need "partner" sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner" sudo apt-get update -qq sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk -yq Kyusik Chung
