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Request: Various updates for installer pages
A few requests from @sxa as per the recent July 2025 retrospective:
Some "end user" installer notes:
- Linux install has the lines a little fragmented - perhaps we could have one box with all the commands that can be easily cut & pasted from?
- The initial apt commands to set up your machine before installing Temurin don't include
gpgwhich is required and not present by default on the latest Ubuntu LTS - We should have a note about STS vs LTS versions and
update-alternatives(discussion) ref mailing list post. At the moment 24 (STS) will take priority over 21 (LTS) if both are installed.
Also while this is in my head:
- The main installer page tells you
apt install temurin-21-jdkor similar but is it obvious to the end user that there are other instructions (later on) to set up the repos? - We should maybe make reference to the new Fedora/EL10 temurin repository package in the docs.
👋 Can you please, give the documentation URL your refer to?
It's https://adoptium.net/en-GB/installation and the "Read documentation" link at https://adoptium.net/en-GB/installation/linux
It's also always felt a bit strange that we have the two pages - first tells you about the apt/yum/dnf commands, but you can't use any of them until you set it up using the stuff in the "Read documentation" link 🤷🏻