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[Christian Dannie Storgaard <cybolic@xxxxxxxxx>]

Also, since Sun's Java was mentioned earlier, here's a more "correct"
way of installing it in Lucid:

sudo apt-add-repository 'deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner'
sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jre

If you just want to run a single application in Sun's Java, you can run:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/java -jar /path/to/program.jar

else, as Philipp Lies wrote, type:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

and select "/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java" (probably the
selection labeled "2")

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Fonts in Java application are distorted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/520515
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Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete

Bug description:
Description:	Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release:	10.04
java version "1.6.0_17"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.7) (6b17-1.7-1ubuntu1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode)

Fonts are massively distorted (see screenshot). Too high and too thin, practically unreadable. Since there is no sun jre available in lucid I cannot verify this bug on other java systems. Application itself works fine with karmic and windows.