What is the procedure to install specific OpenJDK Java 8 update ?

[Mario Torre]

Hello Amos,

This is pretty much a downstream question and depends on how
distribution of the binary take place, so you need to ask to your
provider of the binaries. I, however, strongly recommend to install
the latest update, since older version lack the critical security
patches (and while downstream distributions may decide to add
different things into their packages, this is generally the only
difference between minor versions).

Cheers,
Mario


On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Amos Sonnenwirth <amoss at tikalk.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> Currently, the latest Java8 OpenJDK update is 121.
>
> How can someone install a specific update and not the "latest" one ?
> I encountered this requirement when trying to install specific Java 8
> version on Ubuntu 16 machine.
>
> This is crucial especially for automation scripts where you want to have
> full control of the installed version.
>
> Amos