I wanted to try out the new version of phpstorm and see if the fonts rendered better then the last time I tried it on Ubuntu. OpenJDK has some problem with rendering fonts due to some licensing issues so I had to install oracle Java. In the past
Download & extract Oracle Java to $HOME/bin:
1 2 3 | mkdir -p $HOME/bin/ cd $HOME/bin/ curl -L -k -b "oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u101-b13/jre-8u101-linux-x64.tar.gz | tar -xz |
Register Java binaries with update-alternatives:
1 2 3 | update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "$HOME/bin/jre1.8.0_101/bin/java" 1 update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "$HOME/bin/jre1.8.0_101/bin/javac" 1 update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javaws" "javaws" "$HOME/bin/jre1.8.0_101/bin/javaws" 1 |
Mark new Java binaries as default:
1 2 3 | update-alternatives --set java $HOME/bin/jre1.8.0_101/bin/java update-alternatives --set javac $HOME/bin/jre1.8.0_101/bin/javac update-alternatives --set javaws $HOME/bin/jre1.8.0_101/bin/javaws |
which java should now report: $HOME/bin/jre1.8.0_101/bin/java
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