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    # These instructions have been updated to no longer rely on lzip since it's not available out of
    # the box in many environments.

    # SHORTCUT ALERT: If you don't want to go through the whole process to build the rearguard tarball
    # or use the ziupdater tool to generate and install a tzdb.dat file you can always just download
    # the latest tar.gz and tzdb.dat files from a repo I created that automatically builds new TZDB
    # releases as they come out. This repo is at https://github.com/jeremywall/tzdb-builder/releases

    # make a new working directory first
    mkdir tzdb
    cd tzdb
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    # correct the permission of the tzdb file that was installed
    # for oracle java 8 it's at /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/lib/tzdb.dat
    # for corretto java 8 it's at /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-amazon-corretto/jre/lib/tzdb.dat
    # for corretto java 11 it's at /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-amazon-corretto/lib/tzdb.dat
    sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-amazon-corretto/jre/lib/tzdb.dat

    # start java processes
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    # download the latest tzdb
    wget https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-latest.tar.lz

    # decompress
    lzip -d tzdb-latest.tar.lz

    # untar
    tar xvf tzdb-latest.tar

    # change dir where VERSION is the version number
    cd tzdb-VERSION
    # I recently had to try to update the TZDB of a JDK installation where I could not install lzip
    # from any registered package repository and trying to compile lzip from source was failing.
    # I discovered that as an alternative to using the tzdb-latest.tar.lz file I could just use both
    # the tzcode-latest.tar.gz and the tzdata-latest.tar.gz to generate the needed rearguard tarballs.
    # These instructions have been updated to no longer rely on lzip since it's not available out of
    # the box in many environments.

    # make a new working directory first
    mkdir tzdb
    cd tzdb

    # download the latest tzcode and tzdata archives
    wget https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzcode-latest.tar.gz
    wget https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdata-latest.tar.gz

    # decompress the archives into the current directory
    tar xzfv tzcode-latest.tar.gz
    tar xzfv tzdata-latest.tar.gz

    # make the rearguard version, the result output file will be tzdataVERSION-rearguard.tar.gz where VERSION is the version number
    make rearguard_tarballs
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    # correct the permission of the tzdb file that was installed
    # for oracle java 8 it's at /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/lib/tzdb.dat
    sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/lib/tzdb.dat
    # for corretto java 8 it's at /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-amazon-corretto/jre/lib/tzdb.dat
    sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-amazon-corretto/jre/lib/tzdb.dat

    # start java processes

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    # download the latest tzdb
    wget https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-latest.tar.lz

    # decompress
    lzip -d tzdb-latest.tar.lz

    # untar
    tar xvf tzdb-latest.tar

    # change dir where VERSION is the version number
    cd tzdb-VERSION

    # make the rearguard version, the result output file will be tzdataVERSION-rearguard.tar.gz where VERSION is the version number
    make rearguard_tarballs

    # get the ziupdater tool from https://www.azul.com/products/open-source-tools/ziupdater-time-zone-tool/
    # place the ziupdater-x.y.z.jar and the tzdataVERSION-rearguard.tar.gz on the machine you want to update
    # stop Java processes
    # run the ziupdater
    sudo java -jar ziupdater-x.y.z.jar -l file:///home/username/path/to/tzdataVERSION-rearguard.tar.gz

    # correct the permission of the tzdb file that was installed
    # for oracle java 8 it's at /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/lib/tzdb.dat
    sudo chmod 644 /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/lib/tzdb.dat

    # start java processes