My system is Ubuntu 10.04.4 (LTS)
I know there is OpenJDK "1.6.0_24"
The version in Ubuntu is "1.6.0_20"
How do I install the latest version of the OpenJDK available?
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no idea why ... possibly because you had commentary in your question. I've tidied this for you. – fossfreedom♦ Apr 12 '12 at 11:55
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1These are different, JDK6 and JDK7 are not compatible and both have "latest" versions. Like Python 2 and Python 3 – Hristo Hristov Apr 12 '12 at 14:09
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@HristoHristov Not completely true. Java 7 is fully backwards compatible with Java 6; anything that works on 6, also works on 7. – Jesper Apr 12 '12 at 14:45
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1@Jesper This would mean that Java6 should not exist anymore. Then why the latest linux distros still come with 6? I am not sure it is full backwards compatible. – Hristo Hristov Apr 12 '12 at 15:14
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@HristoHristov Companies are always very careful to jump onto a new version of anything. If their software works with Java 6 and they don't have a good business reason to go to 7, they stay at 6. And Oracle will continue to support 6 for a while. Upgrading doesn't happen immediately everywhere the day a new version comes out. – Jesper Apr 12 '12 at 17:39
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I Just used this line in terminal:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
Hope it work for you.
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1I'm guessing this has been voted down because OpenJDK 7 is only available from the package repositories in Oneiric (11.10) and later. – Adrian Sep 18 '12 at 19:23
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And because JDK 6 and 7 are different things with different "latest" versions. And 10.04 comes with JDK 6. – Hristo Hristov Sep 18 '12 at 19:47
