I've installed both java and eclipse from apt-get.Following the ubuntu java instructions I've installed the IcedTea stuff on my system:sudo apt-get install icedtea-java7-jreand it seems to have ...

Base Ubuntu installations do not come with Java; if you’d like to install a particular JDK, say Oracle’s JDK 7, you can leverage ubuntu-equip, which is a series of Bash scripts that install ...