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There is a question about How can I install Sun/Oracle's proprietary Java JDK 6/7/8 or JRE? There are 23 answers at the moment, most of them are either explaining how to do it manually (unpack, move file, create links, ...) or how to add a PPA and install a package, and none of them mentions using java-package to create your own deb package.

Creating your own deb package is very easy:

You install java-package 

sudo apt-get install java-package

You download the Oracle tar.gz archive.
You create your deb package 

fakeroot make-jpkg jdk-7u79-linux-x64.tar.gz

An you install it 

sudo dpkg -i oracle-java7-jdk_7u79_amd64.deb

Am I missing something? Is there any reason not to use java-package? Something wrong with it?

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  • Maybe no one noticed it before, and you should post this as an answer to that question! – muru Dec 13 '15 at 16:25
  • If it helps, there's a reasonably upvoted Stack Overflow post mentioning this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/28863828/2072269 – muru Dec 13 '15 at 16:34
  • I couldn't as it's a protected question and the 100 association bonus doesn't count toward the 10 rep needed to reply. – Sacha K Dec 13 '15 at 16:37
  • Didn't see that. It was on 5 upvotes versus 297 for the top answer, that's quite sad. Well, I guess that question was asking for JDK, not specifically the Oracle one, but still. – Sacha K Dec 13 '15 at 16:40

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