Ubuntu 9.04 and the latest official Java JRE/JDK

[Ioannis Vranos]

Ulf Rompe wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 10.07.2009, 10:02 -0400 schrieb Fred Roller:
>> They do through the medibuntu repo I believe.
> 
> That was until Sun opened Java for the public. A look with apt-cache
> shows that the Sun Java packages are now in multiverse:
> 
> apt-cache policy sun-java6-jre
> sun-java6-jre:
>   Installiert: 6-13-1
>   Kandidat: 6-13-1
>   Versions-Tabelle:
>  *** 6-13-1 0
>         500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> So just make sure you have multiverse enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list,
> run "apt-get update" and install the wanted package.


The latest version is 6-14, and it isn't provided in the repositories.


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