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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. |
If you try and install 32-bit Java on 64-bit Ubuntu you will get the following error,
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