Java5 updates

[NoOp]

ubuntu at enelserver.com wrote:
> hello:
> 
> Ubuntu edgy has  sun-java5   1.5.0-08
> Sun has released Java 1.5.0_10  and  1.6
> 
> Will there be a java update for Ubuntu edgy ?
> 
> thanks
> 
> leonel
> 
> 
> 


To install the latest (10) follow the instructions here:

http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu:Edgy#How_to_install_JRE_v5.0_Update_10

Note: this also works just find on Dapper 6.06x LTS. Also, do not use
Automatix2 to install: as of yesterday Automatix2 was still installing 6
on Dapper. For Dapper users: I highly recommend the upgrade to 10 given
the security issues & announcements from Sun regarding Java:

  http://secunia.com/search/?search=java
    http://secunia.com/advisories/23445/
      http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102729-1

Added note: if you have multiple systems, once you've created the .deb
for 10 it's a simple matter of copying the .deb over to those systems
and running the
sudo dpkg -i sun-j2re1.5_1.5.0+update10_i386.deb

Alternate method if you have Java installed in a custom folder and want
to keep it there rather than /usr/java/:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=73ab8c32ef327409f923c6fd4efba148&t=319138&highlight=java+10
[http://preview.tinyurl.com/yytn9l for a shorter link]