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[Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://blog.flexion.org/2012/01/10/updated-sun-java6-packages-for-ubuntu/


On Tuesday, December 20, 2011, Morten Olav Hansen wrote:

> Hi guys
>
> Probably most of you have already heard the news (its been quite a bit
> of buzz on this lately).
>
> The Sun (Oracle) version of Java will be removed from Ubuntu (from the
> partner repositories), and during your next system update, it will
> _remove_ these packages, which means DHIS 2 will stop working.
>
> The simplest solution to fixing this, is to install the openjdk
> instead (available since 10.4 at least), it should work fine, but
> there might be some performance issues for now.
>
> The other solution is to get the binaries directly from
> http://java.sun.com and install them locally, but then you are
> responsible for updating the version yourself.
>
> For more information:
>
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/java-to-be-removed-from-ubuntu-uninstalled-from-user-machines/
>
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/2011/12/19/dlj-project-long-live-openjdk
>
> --
> Morten
>


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