Ubuntu 9.04 and the latest official Java JRE/JDK

[Mario Guenterberg]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:38:01PM +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> In 8.10 and 9.04, Ubuntu uses as the default, the crappy OpenJDK. With crappy I mean it doesn't display 
> well/correctly the Java applets in Firefox.
> 
> 
> It also provides the official SUN Java JRE/JDK but with a note:
> 
> "Canonical does not provide updates for sun-java6-jre. Some updates may be provided by the Ubuntu community".
> 
> 
> This has as a result, either to stay with an outdated version of JRE with security holes, which is NOT good, 
> or force the users install and configure the latest Java JREs/JDKs manually, without being able to uninstall 
> OpenJDK or the older SUN Java JRE/JDK from Synaptic, due to dependencies.
> 
> 
> The simple solution to this, is Ubuntu to also provide the latest version of SUN Java JRE/JDK. Why don't they 
> do this?

You can use java-package to build your own sun-jre/sun-jdk deb
package from the original downloads from sun.
In cooperation with alternatives it is no problem to work with
this and hold it up to date.

Greetings
Mario

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