posts/install-sun-java-6-jre-and-jdk-from-deb-packages/

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Install Sun Java 6 JRE and JDK from .deb packages

https://wimpress.com/posts/install-sun-java-6-jre-and-jdk-from-deb-packages/

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Originally posted by S. Schneider on 2012-01-16 22:57

Thanks!
It worked, but had some dependency problems...
I think it is related to "unixobdc dev", not sure...
I checked the log and installed with synaptic

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Originally posted by S. Schneider on 2012-01-16 23:01

I tried once again, no more dependency errors, but no ia32deb...?
This is the latest terminal output:
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sps@Kub64:~$ sudo ./oab-java6.sh -k jre
oab-java6.sh v0.1.1 - Install Java 6u30 from locally built packages.
Copyright (c) 2012 Flexion.Org, https://wimpress.com. MIT License

By running this script to download and/or install Java you acknowledge that
you have read and accepted the terms of the Oracle end user license agreement.

- https://www.oracle.com/techn...

If you want to see what this is script is doing while it is running then execute
the following from another shell:

tail -f /home/spsoab-java6.sh.log

Here we go...
[x] Installing development tools success
[x] Making build directories success
[x] Removing clones of https://github.com/rraptorr... success
[x] Cloning https://github.com/rraptorr... success
[x] Downloading jdk-6u30-linux-i586.bin : ~80MB success
[x] Symlinking jdk-6u30-linux-i586.bin success
[x] Downloading jdk-6u30-linux-x64.bin : 80MB success
[x] Symlinking jdk-6u30-linux-x64.bin success
[x] Updating the changelog success
[x] Building the packages \Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-sps" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
success
[x] Moving the packages success
[x] Installing Java 6u30 : [jre] success
All done!
sps@Kub64:$ kbuildsycoca4 running...
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-sps" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
kbuildsycoca4(7323) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry text/html in "/home/sps/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
====================================

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Originally posted by S. Schneider on 2012-01-16 23:03

Forgot to mention, this is a oneiric kubuntu64 box
Thanks for your work!

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Originally posted by SillyWalk on 2012-01-17 03:58

The build won't be successful if unixobdc is not installed. I tried this on a vanilla (freshly installed) 32bit Ubuntu.

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Originally posted by Jim on 2012-01-17 06:10

Would love to get this working, where do I submit errors for troubleshooting?

I get the following errors on my x64 build:

[x] Updating the changelog success
[x] Building the packages success
[x] Moving the packages failed
[i] Showing the last 5 lines from the logfile (/home/user/Downloads/java/oab-java6.sh.log)...
success
[x] Moving the packages mv: cannot stat `/var/local/oab/sun-java6-*_6.30-3oneiric1_*.deb': No such file or directory
mv: cannot stat `/var/local/oab/sun-java6_6.30-3oneiric1_amd64.changes': No such file or directory

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Originally posted by webmaster on 2012-01-17 17:23

Thanks for all your feedback. I'll set up a bare bones test system and double check the build and install requirements. Hopefully I'll have an updated script later today.

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Originally posted by webmaster on 2012-01-17 22:01

Thanks to the issues reported above I've taken the script in a new direction. 0.1.3 is now available, please take the time to read the full README.

- https://github.com/flexiond...

The script no longer directly installs any Java packages, instead it now creates a locally hosted 'apt' repository for the Java 6 packages it created. You are now able to 'apt-get' install/upgrade Java 6 in the normal way, except the packages are sourced from your own file system. This approach solves the dependency issues reported and is much cleaner solution. I wish I'd done this form the outset :-)

If anyone has any problem, then please submit a ticket on my Issue Tracker.

- https://github.com/flexiond...

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Originally posted by TechNerdCentral on 2012-01-19 06:46

What exactly the difference between doing it the above way or from the PPA????

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sun-java-community-team/sun-java6
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin equivs

I'm confused... Is there a difference between either of these methods? I would love to have some feedback either way about which is the best method to install Java. I prefer using the PPAs when I can to install software on Ubuntu, but if you have a good reason for what it is better to use the script, I would like to hear anyone's opinions either way.

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Originally posted by Paul on 2012-01-19 08:41

If I install Java 6 using your script, will my Java installation automatically update when Oracle publishes security updates?

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Originally posted by Giovanni Escobar on 2012-01-20 07:38

Quite a job. Thanks a lot. Just one question from a newbie: after seeing your script, and expecting Oracle to decide we should click somewhere to download their files, why don't you ask us to do it previously executing your script?

And I understand that Janusz Debian Packaging scripts are thought to make a HOLE ppa of java packages. Is that why we need to download both (rather big) java*.bin? How difficult would it be to make a more focused script? I just wanted the JRE for 64b and plugin, not the JDK.

By the way, there was no problem with the script. However, during the second download the speed was far worst than during the first one, and it was not my ISP, it was Oracle servers (or something from that side).

Also, when I ran
$sudo apt-get upgrade
there was a warning that the packages couldn't be authenticated (sorry if is not the right translation, my system is in Spanish), of course because it is a LOCAL ppa, not a remote one. But for a newbie, it is a little chocking...

Thanks a lot. Now my system is how I need it.

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Originally posted by Martin Wimpress on 2012-01-20 15:24

Hi,

@TechNerdCentral - All the Java 6 packages in the PPA's or Canonical repositories are version 6u26 or older. The version have security vulnerabilities that are being exploited in the wild. If you have install Java 6 from the Canonical repositories then the Java 6 browser plugin has been removed in a recent package update.

@paul - 0.1.3 of my script will only create version 6u30 packages. However, I will soon be releasing an update which automatically tracks the upstream Debian packaging script which will provide a means of getting that latest Java 6 update.

@giovanni - You should ask Janusz about the requirement for both Java6 installers, since my script rely on his entirely - https://github.com/rraptorr... Yes, the Oracle download servers can be horribly slow, which is why my script caches the downloads, so that you only need download them once each :-) Yes, the local 'apt' repository is unsigned. I'm not sure if I will be able to address that. I'll update the documentation though.

Thanks to all of you for the feedback.

Regards, Martin.

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Originally posted by Martin Wimpress on 2012-01-20 23:19

Hi,

@giovanni - I've update the script to 0.1.4. This new version now signs the local 'apt' repository which means the packages are authenticated :-)

Regards, Martin.

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Originally posted by seb on 2012-01-21 01:00

Hi,
Getting an error with apt-get, something prevents the package from being create, any ideas where to look? I added an error from the oab script, but I am not sure what could cause it.

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package sun-java6-jre is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'sun-java6-jre' has no installation candidate

-- output from the script:

[x] Symlinking jdk-6u30-linux-x64.bin success
dpkg-deb: error: failed to read archive `/var/local/oab/deb/*.deb': No such file or directory
dpkg-deb: error: failed to read archive `/var/local/oab/deb/*.deb': No such file or directory
[x] Creating Packages.gz file success

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Originally posted by Martin Wimpress on 2012-01-21 02:47

I just released 0.1.5, it should fix the problem :-)

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Originally posted by Bob on 2012-01-21 02:10

Hi Martin,

Great idea and script! But it didn't work without a small correction.

Seems to me you left some comment hashes in the sections "[x] Building the packages" and "[x] Moving the packages".

I removed them and the script works flawless :)

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Originally posted by t3g on 2012-01-21 04:27

Have you thought about adding an additional script to support Oracle's Java 7? It would be awesome to have both as an option. :-)

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Originally posted by Martin Wimpress on 2012-01-21 04:30

Take a look at the TODO section in the README :-)

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Originally posted by stew on 2012-04-30 16:40

thanks your script executed flawlessly. ubuntu natty 32bit

however

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

suggested a number of additional packages. It was on clipboard to paste. But I was logged out. On login a complaint about unsucessful install would I like to report. Sure. tried that a few times before I was informed it was not an official package (I know this). The control bits are available in system, preferences, sun java

so all is well? How can I test this? and should I keep the icedtea firefox plug-in or is there something new? And can I keep both this and openJDK somehow disabling one without uninstalling?

cheers

stew

xmpp:thirdzombie@neko.im/otr

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Originally posted by Brainlid on 2012-04-30 22:58

Trackback: Thanks for the awesome post and work.

https://brainlid.posterous.c...

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Originally posted by Stefano Santoro on 2012-05-02 21:13

Thanks a thousand fold!

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Originally posted by Gary Mullins on 2012-06-01 03:43

Thanks for the great script! This solved my issues with installing JAVA on Ubuntu Server 10.04.4 LTS!

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Originally posted by TheARC77 on 2012-06-03 03:39

Succesfully installed in one box with mint 13 at first try but i can't get this in Mint12, appear as valid repo but even i cant force the version to setup.

Sorry for my poor english

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Originally posted by dd on 2012-06-14 05:46

Git Hub link is not working

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Originally posted by David on 2012-06-29 10:35

just stopped by to say thanks a lot for the script

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Originally posted by JS on 2012-07-15 13:56

Thanks for this. It was all going so well and then I got this error:

[x] Downloading jdk-6u33-linux-i586.bin : https://: Invalid host name.
10359's retcode: 1
failed

Both web pages before that were returned successfully, but the ${DOWNLOAD_URL} and ${DOWNLOAD_SIZE} seem to be blank - an error not handled in the script.

Whilst I can see your parsing the web page for links I'm not sure if it's working - maybe the page has been changed slightly.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Originally posted by Mark on 2012-07-17 00:58

looks like its missing ???

wget https://raw.github.com/flex... -O oab-java6.sh
--2012-07-16 15:54:25-- https://raw.github.com/flex...
Resolving raw.github.com... 207.97.227.243
Connecting to raw.github.com|207.97.227.243|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2012-07-16 15:54:26 ERROR 404: Not Found.

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Originally posted by Bernd on 2012-07-24 16:12

Thanks, you should not out-of-the-box document how to run your script as root, but use a fakeroot approach to build those packages (if possible).

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Originally posted by haris on 2012-09-03 06:03

in ubunto 12, just type as javac and u ill get the available packages so then type as
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

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Originally posted by DigiBodhi on 2012-09-19 15:59

Hi,
I am trying to use the script, but it is not really working. I am doing this on xubuntu 10.04, and getting :

[x] Installing Java build requirements success [x] Making build directories success [x] Removing clones of https://github.com/rraptorr... success [x] Cloning https://github.com/rraptorr... failed [i] Showing the last 5 lines from the logfile (/home/fsto/Downloads/oab-java.sh.log)...
error: The requested URL returned error: 403 while accessing https://github.com/rraptorr...
fatal: HTTP request failed8307's retcode: 128failed

Thanks for any help!

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Originally posted by DigiBodhi on 2012-09-19 16:25

Well, that was fast, the script is now finding the page ... Well, maybe a knot in the intertubes ... Or if it was a real problem and got fixed, thanks!

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Originally posted by zzz on 2012-09-24 19:23

The URI for your script is incorrect. It looks like it should be https://github.com/flexiond...

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Originally posted by uwe on 2012-09-26 21:14

Sorry, but I think the download links to Sun Java 6, don't work.

--2012-09-26 22:00:44-- (Versuch:20) https://edelivery.oracle.co...
Verbindungsaufbau zu edelivery.oracle.com (edelivery.oracle.com)|2.17.22.174|:443... verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, warte auf Antwort... Lesefehler (The request is invalid.) beim Vorspann (header).
Aufgegeben.

12697's retcode: 4
failed

Thanks!