Wheezy and Sun-Java

[Dr Beco <rcb@beco.cc>]

Dear linuxers,

According to this blog (
http://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/sylvestre/2011/08/26/sun_java6_packages_removed_from_debian_u
)
from Sylvestre, responsible for maintaining sun-java*, Java did not
renew it's license, and so, sun-java6-jre and sun-java-plugin will not
be available on Wheezy.

The author suggests:
apt-get --purge remove sun-java6-jre && apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
in another (more recent) post.

Unfortunately, my internet baking does not recognize openjdk. Only
sun-java seems to work. When calling technical support, the attendant
insist I should upgrade to the last sun-java plugin. There is simply
no alternatives for me.

I managed to install sun-java after adding the old "squeeze"
repository temporarily to my sources.list. It is working now without
any problems.


I would like to call the attention to this problem. Please:

1) If possible, something like the flash plugin should be done. It
simply download the last sun-java from the original website and
installs it. (We don't need sun-java to be at the repository)
2) If using squeeze repository is the only way we can still have
sun-java6 working, don't break this possibility on the release version
of Wheezy.
3) If there is an easy way of creating a ".deb" package from the .tgz
on the original site, that would also be nice. Something like the
google-earth package, I believe.

There are many solutions, so please, just take a kind look into this!


Thanks,
Beco






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