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It surprises me Oracle doesn't provide a .deb for their JRE/JDK: they do for Virtualbox (they even have a repo). So why not for the JRE/JDK?
by Confusion 15y ago
It surprises me Oracle doesn't provide a .deb for their JRE/JDK: they do for Virtualbox (they even have a repo). So why not for the JRE/JDK?
- rcthompson 15y agoVirtualBox provided an apt repo before Oracle (or was it Sun?) bought them. So they already had the infrastructure set up for providing apt packages. No reason to dismantle it after the acquisition. In contrast, I don't think Oracle/Sun have ever provided debs for Java, so doing so now would require an investment of time, effort, and community collaboration to ensure that their debs incorporate themselves correctly into the system (via "update-alternatives" and such things).