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java-package: Replacement of sun-java6

Back in October 2011, I blogged about the removal of the sun-java6 package from the Debian archive.

Even if Openjdk 7 is just great, some corporations still need to use the non-free sun-java6 packages.
For perform this task, Cédric Pineau and I brought back an old package from the archive called java-package.

From the upstream release, for example jdk-6u*-linux-x64.bin (which the user will have download since Debian is no longer allowed to redistribute it), the command

make-jpkg ~/Downloads/jdk-6u31-linux-x64.bin

will generate a .deb which can be installed in the packaging system.

Obviously, new upstream releases will NOT be automatically updated.

This is far from perfect but it is temporary solution until everybody switch to the OpenJDK.

This entry was posted by Sly and filed under Debian.

7 commentaires

Commentaire de: aim [Visiteur]
aim

any plans to include this into ubuntu?

29.02.12 @ 23:38
Commentaire de: [Membre]
Sly

Ubuntu is regularly synchronizing against Debian… So, it should come sooner or later.

29.02.12 @ 23:44
Commentaire de: gebi [Visiteur]
gebi

Thx for bringing java-package back!
Btw… i update the sun-java6 package regularly to make it work with the newest java 6 version.

https://github.com/gebi/sun-java6

01.03.12 @ 13:31
Commentaire de: Julian Andres Klode [Visiteur]
Julian Andres Klode

Not only corporations, also everyone wanting to use applets basically needs Oracle’s Java build, as the free plugin basically does not work with many sites.

01.03.12 @ 14:31
Commentaire de: [Membre]
sylvestre

Julian: apt-get install icedtea-web
See:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/icedtea-web.html

01.03.12 @ 14:40
Commentaire de: mirabilos [Visiteur]
mirabilos

This is… well, not great, but useful. Not great because, in my heart, I’m fully behind throwing it out. Useful because, to update mksh in Android AOSP, I need to be able to build and test-boot it – and Google is still depending on Sun J2SDK 6 for that.

I tried lenny’s package, but first had to patch it to accept two-digit patchlevels and amd64 packages, and THEN ran into the problem that update-java-alternatives didn’t like the result. At all. If this tool version does it better, I’m bought.

Merci!

01.03.12 @ 22:37
Commentaire de: Manuel [Visiteur]
Manuel

the sun-java6 package seems also to be updated/available here :

https://github.com/rraptorr/sun-java6

06.03.12 @ 14:57


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