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On 03/07/2013 11:07 PM, Roman V.Leon. wrote:
> Hello gentlemen.
> Could you advise please, why the JRE/JDK versions are too old in Debian?
> There were a few security issues recently but current version in testing
> is still 7u3, while the oracle version is already 7u17. I can't see
> other ways of installing java in Debian except for downloading from
> oracle.com or I miss something? Thanks.
> 

You also might try the make-jpkg command in java-package to build a .deb
from the Oracle for installation on your systems.

The usage is quite simple:

$ make-jpkg ~/Downloads/jdk-7u17-linux-x64.tar.gz

You'll need a version java-package from either testing or unstable.

Cheers,
tony

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