Complete java uninstall

The next 2 commands must be type excatly perfectly to avoid permanently destroying your system. You may not need to completely remove the OpenJDK to resolve your problem. Install the sun-java6 packages. Then use update-java-alternatives to switch to the Sun java packages.

You may need to remove some java packages but most of them should be happy once you have the Sun JDK packages installed. You may want to follow one of these cleanup tips once you are done removing packages.

Assuming you have previously installed a copy of javasun package, a followup will help getting rid of broken symbolic link:.

So remove all files resides in "javaoracle" folder with root permission and extract the latest JDK or JRE files in it. That's it now you would have the latest Java version Installed. Reference: Official installation instruction from Oracle.

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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How to completely uninstall Java? Ask Question. Asked 10 years, 1 month ago. Active 2 years, 9 months ago. Viewed k times. We will see how it can be done on Firefox and Chrome, currently the top two browsers known to us.

In the plugin page look for Java and click on the Disable button next to it. Firefox users must open the add-on page by clicking the Firefox button and then disable the Java TM Platform plugin from the list. The procedure is quite similar for all the other browsers. You need to open the respective browser plugin page and disable Java from the list. So that was how you can uninstall and disable Java in your browsers. If you have disabled it you will not be able to run some online apps that require Java Runtime Environment to function.

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