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.
7 commentaires
any plans to include this into ubuntu?
Ubuntu is regularly synchronizing against Debian… So, it should come sooner or later.
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
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.
Julian: apt-get install icedtea-web
See:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/icedtea-web.html
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!
the sun-java6 package seems also to be updated/available here :
https://github.com/rraptorr/sun-java6
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