Ubuntu – webupd8 oracle-java-7-installer failing with 404

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I am attempting to install java7 in a docker image. This was working till a few days ago. Commands are:

    apt-get --fix-missing update
    apt-get -y upgrade

    apt-get -y install software-properties-common
    add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
    apt-get -y upgrade
    apt-get -y update

    echo oracle-java7-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections
    apt-get install -y oracle-java7-installer

Output is:

       Setting up oracle-java7-installer (7u80+7u60arm-0~webupd8~1) ...
       debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
       debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
       debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
       debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
       debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
       debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
       Downloading Oracle Java 7...
       --2017-05-29 16:54:29--  http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u80-b15/jdk-7u80-linux-x64.tar.gz
       Resolving download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)... 104.96.220.162, 104.96.220.106
       Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|104.96.220.162|:80... connected.
       HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
       Location: (REMOVING H-T-T-P-S BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH REP POINTS)://edelivery.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u80-b15/jdk-7u80-linux-x64.tar.gz [following]
       --2017-05-29 16:54:29--  (REMOVING H-T-T-P-S BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH REP POINTS)://edelivery.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u80-b15/jdk-7u80-linux-x64.tar.gz
       Resolving edelivery.oracle.com (edelivery.oracle.com)... 23.196.115.62, 2600:1408:10:184::2d3e, 2600:1408:10:185::2d3e
       Connecting to edelivery.oracle.com (edelivery.oracle.com)|23.196.115.62|:443... connected.
       HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
       Location: (REMOVING H-T-T-P BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH REP POINTS)//download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u80-b15/jdk-7u80-linux-x64.tar.gz?AuthParam=1496076904_47c6805122b1f8131f00e210452116ca [following]
       --2017-05-29 16:54:29--  http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u80-b15/jdk-7u80-linux-x64.tar.gz?AuthParam=1496076904_47c6805122b1f8131f00e21                                                0452116ca
       Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|104.96.220.162|:80... connected.
       HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
       2017-05-29 16:54:31 ERROR 404: Not Found.

       download failed
       Oracle JDK 7 is NOT installed.
       dpkg: error processing package 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 x11-common (1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1) ...
       debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
       debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
       debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
       debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
       debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
       debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
       invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of start.
       Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
       Setting up xfonts-encodings (1:1.0.4-1ubuntu1) ...
       Setting up xfonts-utils (1:7.7+1) ...
       Setting up gsfonts-x11 (0.22) ...
       Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.9) ...
       Errors were encountered while processing:
        oracle-java7-installer
       E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
       The command '/bin/sh -c apt-get install -y oracle-java7-installer'            returned a non-zero code: 100

Best Answer

The cause of the error is Oracle's removal of the binaries from their site. Though the versions were deprecated a while ago, the binaries were still there for download until recently. But they removed it now.

This is explained in webupd8's site on June 2,2017. Oracle's download page says

Updates for Java SE 7 released after April 2015, and updates for Java SE 6 released after April 2013 are only available to Oracle Customers through My Oracle Support (requires support login).

Java SE Advanced offers users commercial features, access to critical bug fixes, security fixes, and general maintenance".

Check the full details here http://www.webupd8.org/2017/06/why-oracle-java-7-and-6-installers-no.html.

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