How do I stop automatic updates for a specific program?
 

scs

Have you tried blacklisting the package?

To unblock it:

Hope this helps.

Sorry, I should've asked what distro you're using. What you're looking to do is called "blacklisting" and how you go about that depends on your package manager.

fjd

You're quite welcome.

I think your problem stems from not having JDK installed.

Check out this link:

jre is the java running environment. This is suitable for users who are not doing development work but are simply running programs that need java functionality. jdk is the java development kit, which is evidently a necessary dependency for sdk. Install jdk and your problem is solved.

sgs

Well, if you found our posts helpful, please mark them as such. And use the thread tools to mark the problem as solved.

agd

It's not a source package. It's a binary tarball. I know because I have Crux and that uses the oracle version of JRE. I suspect a lot of distros do.

aad

It's because you download and install stuff directly from the web, Windows style. Once you start doing that, you have to go on doing it because programs have dependencies (libraries and suchlike that they need) and the programs you download will probably not be compatible with the libraries you already have.

Most Linux users don't do that. We stick to programs from the repository and install them via the package manager. If we frequently find that what we want isn't in the repository, we switch to a distro with bigger repositories! And in the extreme case, where we must have a program and can't get it any other way, we build from source against the libraries we already have. If you do that, Linux "just works" and you should never have problems finding or updating anything.

If you want to try to make Linux behave like Windows, good luck to you, but you won't have an easy life.

asf

sdf

Oh really? How childish!