I am new to Ubuntu:How Do I get the openjdk API Documentation and all the Other packages installed just as it is mentioned in the installation section relevant to Fedora?

[Mark Wielaard]

On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 13:54 +0530, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
> On 7 May 2011 10:17, Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:
> > On 05/06/2011 07:12 PM, Varuna Seneviratna wrote:
> >>
> >> I am new to Ubuntu:How Do I get the openjdk API Documentation and all
> >> the Other packages installed just as it is mentioned in the
> >> installation section relevant to
> >> Fedora?(http://openjdk.java.net/install/#fedora)
> >
> > Follow the instructions for Debian.
> >
> It doesn't say About installing API Documentation either!

Assuming Ubuntu is like Debian just:
$ aptitude install openjdk-6-doc
And find all the beautiful GPLed javadoc and other documentation under:
/usr/share/doc/openjdk-6-doc/

Cheers,

Mark