When trying to use the Linux version of Oracle's JDK on the latest Windows 10 build having support for bash, I am running into a problem with the prompt hanging whenever attempting to invoke the java
binary.
Typing even something as simple as java -version
hangs and I have to terminate the process to resume control.
Anyone got this working yet?
However, it is possible to either install and use Oracle JDK for Windows installation from WSL, or install OpenJDK Java into your WSL world from the Ubuntu package manager.
I wanted to clarify that as of 9 December 2016, you most certainly can install Java 8 on Ubuntu Bash for Windows 10 and that @Karl Horton is correct.
You will need to install unzip sudo apt-get install unzip
Copy this script somewhere in your bash for windows session and make it executable (chmod +x filename). If you do not use a command line based editor such as vim then you will have windows line endings to deal with. you can use dos2unix or your preferred way of dealing with that. I just paste it into a file using vim.
#!/bin/bash set -ex # UPDATE THESE URLs export JDK_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u131-b11/d54c1d3a095b4ff2b6607d096fa80163/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.tar.gz export UNLIMITED_STRENGTH_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jce/8/jce_policy-8.zip # Download Oracle Java 8 accepting the license wget --no-cookies --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" \ ${JDK_URL} # Extract the archive tar -xzvf jdk-*.tar.gz # clean up the tar rm -fr jdk-*.tar.gz # mk the jvm dir sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/jvm # move the server jre sudo mv jdk1.8* /usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8 # install unlimited strength policy wget --no-cookies --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" \ ${UNLIMITED_STRENGTH_URL} unzip jce_policy-8.zip mv UnlimitedJCEPolicyJDK8/local_policy.jar /usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/jre/lib/security/ mv UnlimitedJCEPolicyJDK8/US_export_policy.jar /usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/jre/lib/security/ sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/jre/bin/java 2000 sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/bin/javac 2000 sudo echo "export J2SDKDIR=/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8 export J2REDIR=/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/jre export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/db/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/jre/bin export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8 export DERBY_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/oracle_jdk8/db" | sudo tee -a /etc/profile.d/oraclejdk.sh
And now I can do the following
fieldju@DESKTOP-LTL6MIC:~$ java -version java version "1.8.0_112" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_112-b15) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.112-b15, mixed mode)
The links and versions in the above script are likely to be out of date by the time you read this, so just head over to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html accept the license so that their js lets you copy the new URLs and you should be good to go.
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