Intalling the JDK and Maven on Ubuntu Hardy Heron at Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Thes commands will install the Java 6 JDK and maven2 getting you ready to develop on Ubuntu.

apt-get install sun-java6-jdk 
apt-get install sun-java6-plugin # mozilla plugin
update-java-alternatives --list
update-java-alternatives --set java-6-sun
apt-get install maven2 

you may want svn and Ant too

apt-get install subversion
apt-get install ant
 

Note I left out the sudo's.