On the next window, JDownloader asks you if you want to install FlashGot, a Firefox extension. When you first start JDownloader you can choose your preferred language and also your download directory. When you have just installed JDownloader, this will run the update tool to download some required files for JDownloader, else this will start JDownloader directly. Use the command jdownloader to start JDownloader. OpenJDK is recommended, it works flawlessly with jDownloader. JDownloader can download normal files, but also files from online file hosting services like MEGA.nz.įor running JDownloader you need Java installed. That would save you ~ 147 MB and have your Java JRE managed by the Ubuntu system.JDownloader is a download manager written in Java. INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME_OVERRIDE='$JAVA_HOME'/jreĪfterwards you can remove the bundled jd2/jre folder. Then you have to edit the Bash launch script jd2/JDownloader2 located in your home folder ( echo $HOME in a Terminal), to add the following line as the first line of code below the comments ending #INSTALL4J_ADD_VM_PARAMS= These symbolic links are not per jre/ folder but per executable file i.e. You may have to add or edit it, as the Ubuntu system uses update-alternatives to switch between installed versions of Java. for java-7-openjdk JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.7.0_09 In addition the Java version used by default in your system should be defined (system wide for all users) in the file /etc/profile e.g. Each of these install do have a jre/ folder. These packages are installed in /usr/lib/jvm then you will see folder java-7-openjdk for OpenJDK and java-7-oracle or/and java-8-oracle for Java Oracle. Icedtea-7-plugin web browser plugin based on OpenJDK and IcedTea to execute Java applets

Openjdk-7-jdk OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK)

$ sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk icedtea-7-plugin OpenJDK can be installed via Ubuntu's package system by running this command: You may have installed as well Oracle java 7 or 8 from packages build by Install Oracle Java 8. Debian / Ubuntu provides java-7-openjdk packages that will be shared by all applications using Java. This is not useful in any Ubuntu distribution. One improvement though, as you pointed out in earlier posts, jDownloader 2 has a Java jre/ folder bundled with it, which size is ~ 147 MB.

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