[ale] AARG! Manual software updates, Sun Java, LibreOffice, help

Sat Nov 5 20:56:49 EDT 2011

Oracle is not Sun.

So time for a very careful process followed by a history dump to automate
the other machines.

This is a PRIME example of why closed-source code is bad for open-source
environments.

Sorry you're having such a non-fun experience. I wish the open-jre were
more capable but it does work for about 95% of what I see.

Fedora ships with
java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0-35.fc15.x86_64
java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-60.1.10.4.fc15.x86_64

so poke around your distro for similar. That will solve the auto-upgrade
issue.

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Ron Frazier
<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>wrote:

> Followup. Warning ... ranting follows.
>
> <rant on>
>
> <jumping up and down on the table>
> <screaming things that cannot be printed or said in mixed company>
> <throwing any non essential breakable objects against the wall>
>
> These are things I'm seriously tempted to be doing. But, in reality, I
> may just go get some unhealthy food that involves lots of sugar or lots
> of carbohydrates.
>
> It seems that there are no longer any Sun Java packages in any PPA's
> that are current or will be updated. Apparently due to some licensing
> garbage or something.
>
> I just finished spending an hour reading through a 14 PAGE printed howto
> document telling me how to uninstall old Sun Java from Ubuntu and
> reinstall the new version and how to do the same thing EVERY time there
> is an update. ( If you're interested, here's the procedure:
> https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/java ) While I
> appreciate the publisher of the web page making this available, my
> general response is YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING! Now I get to spend HALF an
> HOUR on EVERY COMPUTER updating Java EVERY TIME there is an UPDATE!!!
> Oh, and there are 3 other commands I have to repeat for each user login
> on the machine. There's NO STINKING WAY an AVERAGE user can do this
> without throwing in the towel, even if they were willing to. I'm not
> average, so I can certainly do it, ASSUMING I'm willing to, which is
> highly questionable. This is totally insane. This particular procedure
> is MUCH MUCH harder than Windows. To update Java in Windows, I go to
> Java page, click a link to check my version, click a link to download
> the new one, save it, execute it, and answer a question or two. DONE, 5
> MINUTES FLAT, for ALL USERS on the machine. If that fails, I MAY have to
> spend another 10 minutes finding the stand alone installer and executing
> that.
>
> I'm not blaming anyone necessarily reading this, unless you work for the
> Java team at Oracle. However, since I didn't necessarily want to break
> all the nearby dishes I can get my hands on, I decided to blow off steam
> on the message board. I recently had a similar unhappy experience with
> an ATI video card. What I will say, to anyone with any influence who's
> listening, is that every time an experience like this happens to a
> person who's not a super duper geek, it drives them away from the Linux
> platform, not toward it.
>
> yada yada so on and so forth
>
> Time for a DQ Blizzard with Reece Cups and supper. Then, I'll see if I
> can successfully implement this insane procedure. There goes a good part
> of my evening.
>
> <rant off>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
> On 11/05/2011 09:02 AM, Ron Frazier wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been going through my routine pc maintenance procedures, updating
> > everything which connects to the internet for every login on every
> > computer, checking security settings, doing backups and such.  One of
> > the things I'm trying to get away from by using Linux is the Windows
> > pattern of having to update everything in the system manually, which is
> > very time consuming.  I'm running Ubuntu 10.04, and, for the most part,
> > the Apt / Synaptic package manager system handles the updates.  I have
> > two anomalies that are really bugging me.
> >
> > First is LibreOffice.  I have the following PPA installed:
> >
> > http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu
> >
> > I check on the http://www.libreoffice.org/ website and the latest
> > version is 3.4.3.  However, the latest version in my package manager is
> > 3.3.2.
> >
> > Second is the Sun / Oracle JRE.  I have the following PPA installed:
> >
> > http://ppa.launchpad.net/sun-java-community-team/sun-java6/ubuntu
> >
> > At the moment, I don't really want to debate the merits of the Sun /
> > Oracle JRE versus OpenJDK.  I need the Sun / Oracle version so it will
> > be fully compatible with a Java programming book I'm going to be going
> > through.  The latest recommended version of the Sun / Oracle JRE is
> > 6-29.  The latest version in my package manager is 6-26.  A little
> > Googling around seems to indicate that they've completely removed the
> > Sun / Oracle product from the repositories and PPA's.
> >
> > This is very frustrating.  The accepted procedure seems to be a VERY
> > long and tedious manual uninstall and reinstall process, much longer
> > than in Windows.  And, I still wouldn't get auto updates.  So, the next
> > time things are updated again, I'll have to do all of this again.
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can install LibreOffice 3.4.3 and the Sun /
> > Oracle JRE 6-29 and possibly the JDK, through the package manager, and
> > get full auto updates?  Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks in
> advance.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> (PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
> call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
> mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new messages very quickly.)
>
> Ron Frazier
>
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