I've added the oracle-java7-installer ppa to my apt-cacher-ng server and to my clients. I cannot get it to install.
Any ideas on how I can do this? I think it fails when it tries to download the installation from Oracle. This is what happens when I try to install it:
admin@vgjs001:~$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gsfonts gsfonts-x11 java-common libfontenc1 libxfont1 x11-common xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils
Suggested packages:
default-jre equivs binfmt-support visualvm ttf-baekmuk ttf-unfonts ttf-unfonts-core ttf-kochi-gothic
ttf-sazanami-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-sazanami-mincho ttf-arphic-uming firefox firefox-2 iceweasel
mozilla-firefox iceape-browser mozilla-browser epiphany-gecko epiphany-webkit epiphany-browser galeon midbrowser
moblin-web-browser xulrunner xulrunner-1.9 konqueror chromium-browser midori google-chrome
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gsfonts gsfonts-x11 java-common libfontenc1 libxfont1 oracle-java7-installer x11-common xfonts-encodings
xfonts-utils
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
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Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously unselected package java-common.
download failed
Oracle JDK 7 is NOT installed.
dpkg: error processing oracle-java7-installer (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up gsfonts (1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4.2ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libfontenc1 (1:1.1.0-1) ...
Setting up libxfont1 (1:1.4.4-1) ...
Setting up x11-common (1:7.6+12ubuntu1) ...
Setting up xfonts-encodings (1:1.0.4-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up xfonts-utils (1:7.6+1) ...
Setting up gsfonts-x11 (0.22) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
oracle-java7-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Best Answer
I was just battling with this, here are my findings for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr.
The installer uses
apt-config
to determine which proxy to use. Specifically ifAcquire::http::Proxy::download.oracle.com
returnsDIRECT
to determine whether to use the default proxy of to download directly.Specifically the install runs
And later on
If you use the following apt config then the installer with download directly:
While this works it is somewhat annoying as the download takes forever and that somewhat defeats the purpose of the proxy.
I found that the installer checks a
debconf
variable to check whether to use a local file. The property checked isoracle-java8-installer/local
and it is astring
.Specifically the installer runs:
So if you have the JDK downloaded and in a directory
/jdk/dir
then you need to run the following command before running the installer:Note the trailing
/
on the directory - this is required.