Need help installing java on Ubuntu 9.10 Workstation...

Liam O'Toole liam.p.otoole at gmail.com
Mon Mar 8 09:44:43 UTC 2010


On 2010-03-08, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Scott Beamer
><geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
>> It would be much easier to install the version from the Ubuntu repository.
>>
>>        $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre
> Agreed.... Apart from the fact it's not as upto date as the
> Sun-supplied version. Karmic appears to have 1.6 update 16 as opposed
> to 1.6 update 18 from Sun.
>
> snip from apt-cache show:
> Source: openjdk-6
> Version: 6b16-1.6.1-1ubuntu3
>
> The differences between update 16 and update 18 are not major, mostly
> a bunch of fixes but those fixes might be important.

Update 17 addresses a number of security vulnerabilities. Running a
browser plug-in without it is asking for trouble.

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Liam O'Toole
Birmingham, United Kingdom






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