- A JAVA PET is available to bring consistency to JAVA found in any PUP distro. This contribution was done on 2015-12-25 and makes "JAVA installation and updating" a system feature via the system's Menu.
- A complete JRE installation script and PET is found here. This contribution was done on 2013-05-20
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I don't mean to draw attention toward Pemasu, but, here it is.Also, on 2013-05020, I wrote:Edit: Here are some good instructions for getting JAVA in PUPs.
Also, you may need to link, as mentioned here and here, for some PUP's browser operations.
Last year, when Playdayz+01Micko were working together, ferociously to get latest Puppy out the door, one community member reported something like this; "...installed JRE PET...and on reboot, it could NOT be accessed from a terminal command line...", thus giving an appearance that on reboot, JAVA had disappeared. I run a Live media Puppy and I found this to be true on my Live media reboots with save-sessions, too.
At that time Pemasu had a PET in his Repo that did NOT disappear on reboot in his Repo. In a dialogue I appealed to him (and others) and he responded with a PET that DID STAY IN PUPPY OVER A REBOOT.
This why I draw attention to Pemasu because in doing so he did a very good thing for the official Puppy community.
In a subsequent dialogue when asked what he did, he claimed he did "nothing out of the ordinary" in his PETs production. I am sure that whatever he did, it was so minor that he doesn't know what that was, but, whatever it was, he is still doing this good thing.
But, that problem of JRE's "disappearance" has plagued every PUP distro built since then. It has plagued Exprimo, PUPPY, SLACKO, SALUKI, Barry's etc. which causes the development community to have to investigate each time. That a lot of man-hours over an annual calendar
In this modern world we live, for 32/64bit including "Smart" devices, java (jar programs) development is and will continue for many very good reasons.
Isn't it about time we get an official approach to a JRE or JDK or OpenJDK, where, when the subsystem is installed, it sets itself into the system such that it is not "lost" (that is, lost to the terminal command window) when the system is rebooted.
The following pic shows Playdayz's current PUP528005-1_Libre where the only JRE that I found, which did NOT disappear, was, again, Pemasu's version.
Here to help
Edit: Tardy entry to highlight the contribution by Puppy member "Musher0" which allows the most current JRE version download and install to the running system.