Oracle (Sun) Java JRE 6 update 22

[Pjotr123]

Oracle has made available Java JRE 6 update 22. Among other things, this contains security fixes:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/ja...es-176121.html

If you want it now: it's not in the repo's (yet), but you can install it manually as well. For example by applying this updated how-to:
http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/java

Good luck!

[bep7987]

Thank you!

[Pjotr123]

Thank you!

You're welcome.

Of course this update (6u22) should get into the repositories as well. Both Lucid and Maverick are affected: Lucid has 6u20 and Maverick has 6u21.

An interesting test for the responsiveness of the Ubuntu security team.

[Pjotr123]

Update: there's an active bug report on Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...a6/+bug/659937

It appears they're working on it.

[daniel.cotter]

I've got the Sun JRE installed, dpkg reports it (ii) installed and healthy, but when I type

java -version

it tells me I am using OpenJDK (IcedTea). I need to run the sun proprietary version, because of a site I visit which requires it (for the time being).

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

gets me

update-java-alternatives: directory does not exist: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun

Any suggestions how to define the sun version as the global default?

Thanks in advance,
Daniel

[mikewhatever]

If you have followed Pjotr123's howto, the command to update your java version should look like this:

sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/opt/java/32/jre1.6.0_26/bin/java" 1