Adding sun-java6-jdk On Ubuntu With Puppet

As you may or may not know Oracle (Sun) Java has been removed from all of the Ubuntu Repositories (link). For many of us this is casing problems with our puppet manifests (well for me it certainly does) so here is how I have resolved the issue.

I published a puppet module on github. To check out the module simply cd into your a working copy of your puppet manifest (which hopefully isn't /etc/puppet) and type:

cd ~/puppet/modules/
git clone git@github.com:bcarpio/puppet-java.git java

This will create a directory called java in your modules directory. In the ~/puppet/modules/java/files directory you will find a file jdk1.7.0_03.tar.gz as of this blog post this is the latest version of the jdk if you wish to change the version simply edit the ~/puppet/modules/java/manifests/params.pp file and change $java_version.

Finally, you will want to decide what the path to the jdk is, this is also defined in the params.pp file as $java_base