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#169
Originally Posted by goverweg View Post
You have to unpack it first. But then how does one install what's comming out of the package?
probably the same as earlier versions, IIRC that tarball doesn't contain an installer but the java binaries themselves.
just copy the contents to /opt/java and place a symlink in /usr/bin.

a more detailed description can be found here and here (in the other big java thread on t.m.o)
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