updating java from a terminal

[Jim Rosser]

My guess then is that java 1.5 is not in the repos that far back, i would
suggest either ugrading your system to a later version of Ubuntu or maybe
downloading the java package from the Sun website and manually installing
it.

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:04 PM, James D. Parra <Jamesp at musicreports.com>wrote:

>   Type aptitude search sun-java and see if java5 comes up and install
> whatever java5 packages you see, i don't remember that far back but maybe
> they named the java packages something different from what they do now, you
> might also try aptitude search java just to see what java packages are
> available, someone used to using breezy might provide a better insight.
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> I get the following, below, but not sure if 1.5 is here ;
>
> # aptitude search java
> i   java-common                     - Base of all Java packages
> v   java-compiler                   -
> v   java-cup                        -
> i   java-gcj-compat                 - Java runtime environment using GIJ
> p   java-gcj-compat-dev             - Java runtime environment with GCJ
> v   java-runtime                    -
> v   java-virtual-machine            -
> v   java1-runtime                   -
> v   java2-compiler                  -
> v   java2-runtime                   -
> p   javacc                          - A parser generator for use with Java
> v   javalex                         -
> v   lib-xt-java                     -
> v   libant1.5-java                  -
> p   libant1.6-java                  - Java based build tool like make -
> Librari
> p   libbcel-java                    - Analyze, create, and manipulate
> (binary)
> p   libbcel-java-doc                - Documentation for Byte Code
> Engineering L
> p   libbsf-java                     - Bean Scripting Framework to support
> scrip
> p   libcommons-logging-java         - The commmon wrapper interface for
> several
> p   libcommons-net-java             - internet protocol suite Java library
> p   libcrimson-java                 - XML parser which support the Java API
> for
> p   libcrimson-java-doc             - XML parser which support the Java API
> for
> v   libdb-java                      -
> <snip>
>
> Tried running apt-get install java-common, but it says its already install,
> which makes sense for the old package.
>
> #apt-get install java-common
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> java-common is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> # java -version
> java version "1.4.2_10"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_10-b03)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_10-b03, mixed mode)
> <snip>
>
> Any other suggestions to get Java updated?
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> ~James
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Jim Rosser
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