Java 8 update 421 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 411 released by Oracle.
Removed remaining references to the defunct plugin, the deprecated menu system entries and mailcap related files.
Removed forced database updates from postinst and postrm (done with triggers now).
Fixed checksum comparison of cached JRE package.
Several other minor cleanups throughout the script.
Updated Standards-Version to 4.6.2.
Java 8 update 401 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 391 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 381 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 371 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 361 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 351 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 341 released by Oracle.
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Java 8 update 331 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 321 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 311 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 301 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 281 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 281 released by Oracle.
Fixed mess caused by Oracle switching to an all javascript info web page.
Java 8 update 271 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 261 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 251 released by Oracle.
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Java 8 update 231 released by Oracle.
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Java 8 update 211 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 201 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 191 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 181 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 171 released by Oracle.
Version number increased to 2.0.1 instead of 1.4.9, because of scripting error when creating the previous package.
Java 8 update 161 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 151 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 144 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 141 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 131 released by Oracle.
Some older versions of wget cannot handle the current length of the file name of the tarball on Oracle's server. Added code to work around that.
Java 8 update 121 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 111 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 101 released by Oracle.
Removed code to handle Java 7 as Oracle no longer provides easy access to a Java 7 tarball.
Java 8 update 91 released by Oracle.
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Java 8 update 73 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 71 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 66 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 65 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 60 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 51 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 45 released by Oracle.
Fixed bug that could leave alternatives set after JRE was removed.
Java 8 update 40 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 31 and Java 7 update 75 released by Oracle.
Java 8 update 25 and Java 7 update 71 released by Oracle. Java 8 is now the default.
Added an option to manually download and install the latest Java 7 update instead of the Java 8 one.
Java 7 update 67 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 65 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 60 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 55 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 51 released by Oracle.
The first manual run with install would fail because the directory /usr/share/update-sun-jre didn't exist yet. Added code to create it.
This issue only affected the very first manual install run of the script, so this version was not distributed through the repository.
Java 7 update 45 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 40 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 25 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 21 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 17 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 15 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 13 released by Oracle.
Also two bugs fixed:
Java 7 update 11 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 10 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 9 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 7 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 6 released by Oracle.
Java 7 update 5 released by Oracle.
Creating the links to the locally installed Open Database Connectivity drivers could fail on 64 bit systems, causing the execution of the script to abort prematurely.
Oracle has woken up, so - as expected - the script needed a (small) fix...
Linking of the .systemPrefs directory was flawed.
Some messages cleaned up as the Java 7 package is a tarball and not an executable (binary).
Preparation for when/if Oracle decides to fix the text on the download page at java.com (which will probably make the script fail...).
Java 6 is no longer available at java.com, so switched to Java 7 (7u4). Both executable file (.bin) and tarball (.tar.gz) are supported.
New release by Oracle (6u32).
New release by Oracle (6u31).
Worked around a problem for people who changed their system's default shell (/bin/sh) to something other than dash.
Two bugs fixed:
Some bug fixes and improvements:
This version contains a bug which only shows up if you have already installed the Runtime Environment and then want to install a newer version of it (manually). To work around this you should always use sudo update-sun-jre -v remove
first to remove the installed version. After that, you can pick up the new one without any problems.
This is only required for the manual installation!