Java in Maverick Meerkat

[drkages]

I have been using Maverick Meerkat for a while, and I noticed that sun-java6 packages were not included but I assumed it would have been included in later updates. However with the beta and final release a few weeks away. I dont think it will be included.

Does anyone know the reasons for not including oracle's java. And any official word for canoical.

[ajgreeny]

This is probably because the Partner repos may not yet be up and running for Maverick. I have not looked at it yet, but in Lucid it's the partner repos that contain a lot of those sort of packages, so I assume the same will be true of Maverick, and I seem to remember in the past there was never a full compliment of repos until the final release.

[drkages]

Ok I guess we should wait and see. But I'm almost sure that packages like sun-java6 were in the repos from early in other development series in the past.

[eyelessfade]

That is true, but then java was in the main repos and not in parter

[chocbar31]

I used the following method from this old "froggy" fart...

You may have to reboot afterwards

http://www.thewindows7site.com/forum/threads/18438-Ubuntu-10.10-Maverick-Meercat-and-Sun-JRE

Enjoy

[rworloma]

Follow this tutorial to install in Maverick at Liberian Geek (http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/09/install-sun-java-runtime-environment-jre-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat/)

[stoffe]

http://www.shermann.name/2010/09/sun-java6-packages.html