Install Sun Java 6 JRE and JDK from .deb packages

So, Canonical disabled my Java PPA at the end of last week. So I’ve developed another solution for installing Java 6u30 on Ubuntu which doesn’t infringe any copyrights, licenses, terms of use or CoC’s. However, by running this script to download Java you acknowledge that you have read and accepted the terms of the Oracle [...]

Posted on January 16, 2012 at 1:20 pm by Martin · Permalink · 39 Comments
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Sun Java 1.6.0.30 packages for Ubuntu

Sun Java 6 packages are being removed from Ubuntu in the near future for the following reasons: As of August 24th 2011, Canonical no longer have permission to redistribute new Java packages as Oracle has retired the “Operating System Distributor License for Java”. Oracle has published an advisory about security issues in the version of [...]

Posted on January 10, 2012 at 10:53 am by Martin · Permalink · 12 Comments
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