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Steps for JRE and JDK are both the same. Here is an example of a JDK setup,

Note

64-bit Java is not recommended at the moment due to significant loss in performance. If 64-bit Java is used, as a convention, we recommend adding to the default folder name _64-bit. In the above example, it would be, jre1.6.0_16_64-bit.

In order to run 64-bit Ubuntu with 32-bit Java you first need ia32-libs,

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If you try and install 32-bit

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64-bit

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Now you can install 32-bit Java,

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you will get the following error,

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./jdk-6u22-linux-i586.bin
Unpacking...
Checksumming...
Extracting...
./jdk-6u22-linux-i586.bin: 113: ./install.sfx.7783: not found
Failed to extract the files.  Please refer to the Troubleshooting section of
the Installation Instructions on the download page for more information.

This is because the ia32-libs package is missing. Using one of staff accounts,

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sudo apt-get install ia32-libs # Required for 32-bit Java on 64-bit Ubuntu

Now the 32-bit Java can be installed.

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su - serveradmin # If you are not already serveradmin
cd ~ # Switch to the serveradmin home directory
chmod +x jdk-6u22-linux-i586.bin