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Re: Sun (Oracle) JRE/JDK to be removed from Ubuntu

 

Yes, this is a ppa :)

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Morten

On Thursday, January 12, 2012, Bob Jolliffe wrote:

> Thanks for the update.  I see the ppa's are beginning to appear so
> that might also be an option.  So far so good with the openjdk.
>
> On 12 January 2012 14:27, Morten Olav Hansen <mortenoh@xxxxxxxxx<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >
> 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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> > Morten
> >
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