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Enable Java8 #1048

Closed hamiltont closed 10 years ago

hamiltont commented 10 years ago

Currently we use java7, and we install system-wide. I don't know how easy it would be to enable java8 as well, but it's worth consideration

msmith-techempower commented 10 years ago

It would be reasonably trivial.

marko-asplund commented 10 years ago

I think enabling Java 8 would definitely be a good thing!

Having multiple Java versions on a Linux system is not a problem. You can use JAVA_HOME environment variable and path to select which JRE to use on a per permutation basis.

Verified the following procedure on Ubuntu 12.04:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update echo oracle-java8-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | sudo /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

I had some problems with add-apt-repository because PycURL CA certificates were set up incorrectly. In my case reinstalling the ca-certificates package did help. As a workaround, I temporarily disabled server certificate checking in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py to get the repository added.

sources: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-java-on-ubuntu-with-apt-get https://github.com/deyvisonrocha/Ubuntu-Bootstrap

richdougherty commented 10 years ago

:+1:

hamiltont commented 10 years ago

Closed by #1080, but we could really use tests attempting to run java8 to see if the installation script is working. Documentation is here