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On upgrading to xenial, the package tzdata-java was removed and is indeed no longer available. I managed to install older JDK versions (still needed for some development) from the openjdk-r PPA, but tzdata-java isn't in there either. I have seen some unit tests fail because the timezone data isn't available.

Why was tzdata-java removed, and more importantly, how can I install some kind of reasonably up-to-date timezone information for Java?

Carl-Eric Menzel
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tzdata-java was removed because OpenJDK 8 does not provide the necessary files to build it. Quoting the Debian bug report which prompted its removal:

The problem is that the default java has recently been switched to openjdk-8, which doesn't provide javazic.jar. As such we can't build tzdata-java anymore.

The other answer gives a PPA which provides a Xenial tzdata-java package for OpenJDK 6 and 7.

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fkraiem
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Java 6 and 7 timezone data were included via the tzdata-java package but this package isn't available for Ubuntu 16.04 so if your java version is 7 or 6 just run :

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:justinludwig/tzdata
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tzdata-java

For more details about this PPA ,this is it's launchpad link.

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