Installing openjdk-7 on Ubuntu 18.04 That Works!
Installing openjdk-7 on Ubuntu 18.04 is tricky, here is a link to how to get it done:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/76112...
And the instructions, as promised:
"It does not look like the maintainer of openjdk-r/ppa will be updating the openjdk-7 package beyond version 7u95-2.6.4-3. That package's description "Copied from debian experimental in Primary Archive for Debian GNU/Linux" gives us a clue about how to handle this ourselves, though.
Option 1: Manual Installation
Download the packages intended for your architecture:
(for most users, this means amd64 if 64bit, or i386 if 32bit Ubuntu is installed)
openjdk-7-jdk
openjdk-7-jre
openjdk-7-jre-headless
libjpeg62-turbo
libfontconfig1 (only Ubuntu 17.10 and earlier; see note at bottom)
fontconfig-config (only Ubuntu 17.10 and earlier; see note at bottom)
(Attempt to) install the packages using dpkg:
Ubuntu 17.10 and earlier:
sudo dpkg i openjdk-7* libjpeg62-turbo* libfontconfig1* fontconfig-config*
Ubuntu 18.04 and later:
sudo dpkg i openjdk-7* libjpeg62-turbo*
Check the output from dpkg. If there were dependency problems – which is likely – you will see the following (with your architecture substituted for amd64):
Errors were encountered while processing:
openjdk-7-jre:amd64
openjdk-7-jre-headless:amd64
openjdk-7-jdk:amd64
If there were no dependency issues, great, you're done, skip to #4. Otherwise, if you need to resolve some dependency issues, this is handled with:
sudo apt install -f
Notice, there is no need to re-run dpkg after letting apt resolve dependencies. It will automatically finish installation of the openjdk packages.
Update java alternatives. You can view all installed java versions with update-java-alternatives --list. To activate OpenJDK Java 1.7, run:
sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64
You may notice an error about the IcedTeaPlugin.so plugin being unavailable. This isn't a real concern for developers working with the JDK.
Verify java is working:
java -version
which should output something similar to:
java version "1.7.0_161"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.12) (7u161-2.6.12-1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.161-b01, mixed mode)"
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