-On Debian-like systems (which includes ubuntu), you need the following
-packages: sun-java6-jdk libgcj10-dev. If you cannot find the
-libgcj10-dev, try another version, like libgcj9-dev (on Ubuntu before
-9.10) or libgcj11-dev (not released yet, but certainly one day).
-Please note that you need to activate the contrib and non-free
-repositories in Debian, and the universe ones in Ubuntu. Java comes at
-this price...
+On Debian, Ubuntu and similar systems, you need the following packages:
+
+ openjdk-7-jdk (or higher)
+ libgcj14-dev (or higher)
