Ubuntu 9.04 and the latest official Java JRE/JDK

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 10 20:10:43 UTC 2009


On 07/10/2009 11:44 AM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

They are in the multiverse proposed repositories; see my previous post.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sun-java6






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