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How to install openjdk-7-jdk on Ubuntu 12.04 without dragging in unrelated GUI and sound packages?

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Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

What's going on here?

# apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

  consolekit cryptsetup-bin dbus-x11 dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service

  gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2 gconf2-common gvfs gvfs-common

  gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs libatasmart4 libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0

  libbonobo2-common libcairo-gobject2 libcanberra0 libck-connector0

  libcryptsetup4 libdconf0 libfontenc1 libgconf-2-4 libgconf2-4 libgdu0

  libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgnome-keyring-common

  libgnome-keyring0 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-0

  libgnomevfs2-common libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common libgudev-1.0-0

  libidl-common libidl0 libllvm3.0 libltdl7 liblvm2app2.2 liborbit2

  libpam-ck-connector libpolkit-agent-1-0 libpolkit-backend-1-0 libsgutils2-2

  libtdb1 libvorbisfile3 libx11-xcb1 libxaw7 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-shape0 libxmu6

  libxpm4 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 mtools openjdk-7-jre policykit-1

  policykit-1-gnome sound-theme-freedesktop udisks x11-utils

Is it possible to install the JDK without half of Gnome and X11? And sound themes? This is a headless (and speakerless) server.

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answered 3 Years ago ardtry · Accepted Answer

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I personally try to avoid Java because in my opinion it is very clumsy.
These instructions are pieced together from various sources,
I had to install Java recently and this should work for you.

If your licensing requirements permit, install Oracle Java.
Download java from here, you need to chose which one you need based on what you have installed.

JDK x64

wget --no-check-certificate --no-cookies - --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u51-b13/jdk-7u51-linux-x64.tar.gz

JDK x32

wget --no-check-certificate --no-cookies - --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u51-b13/jdk-7u51-linux-i586.tar.gz

JRE x64

wget --no-check-certificate --no-cookies - --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u51-b13/jre-7u51-linux-x64.tar.gz

JRE x32

wget --no-check-certificate --no-cookies - --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u51-b13/jre-7u51-linux-i586.tar.gz

Note that you need a workaround for wget and oracle to play nice together.

Create a directory where your Java will live:

sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/jvm

Move the downloaded Java:

sudo mv jdk-7u51-linux-x64.tar.gz /usr/lib/jvm

Extract Java:

sudo tar zxvf jdk-7u51-linux-x64.tar.gz

Tell Ubuntu that Java exists:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_51/bin/javac 1

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_51/bin/java 1

sudo update-alternatives --set javac /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_51/bin/javac

sudo update-alternatives --set java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_51/bin/java

Add java path to your system profile, so that the machine knows where the Java binaries are:

sudo nano /etc/profile

At the end of the file add this:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0_51

PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

export JAVA_HOME

export PATH

Save and reboot.

Test your Java installation:

java -version