As many of you already know, Oracle Java requires logging in to an Oracle account to download most versions (all except the latest Oracle Java release). A while back I created Oracle Java 11 and 12 installer packages (based on the package by Web Upd8), and a PPA for Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
Since Oracle Java 11 can't be directly downloaded from Oracle anymore, the installer no longer works, so I created a new installer that requires the user to create an Oracle account, download the Oracle Java 11 .tar.gz archive (the same version as the installer), and place the archive in
/var/cache/oracle-jdk11-installer-local/. After this, you can install the oracle-java11-installer-local package, and it will set up Oracle Java 11 for you.Everything else works as before. You can install the
oracle-java11-set-default-local package to set Oracle Java 11 as default for example (not only set it as default using a .jinfo file and update-alternatives, but also export the JAVA_HOME environment variable, etc.).This was the only way I could think of to work around the fact that Oracle now requires users to create an account and login to download most Oracle Java versions. If you can think of a better way, please let me know!
I will delete the old
oracle-java11-installer package since it no longer works. I recommend removing it, and using the new oracle-java11-installer-local package. Or better yet, switch from Oracle Java to OpenJDK or some other JDK build, since Oracle now uses a commercial license, and you can only use Java at no cost for development and testing, but it requires a fee to use it in production.Related:
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These are step-by-step instructions for installing Oracle Java 11 using the new "oracle-java11-installer-local" package: