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I'm trying to install JDK on elementaryOS 0.3, but I'd like to do it in a FHS-compliant way. I've read a couple of answers about this topic, and a lot of them state that a program could be installed in /usr/local/. I was going to create a java folder in /usr/local, but before to do that, I started to read the FHS 3. It said the following:

4.9.2. Requirements

The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, must be in /usr/local

Directory Description

  1. bin Local binaries
  2. etc Host-specific system configuration for local binaries
  3. games Local game binaries
  4. include Local C header files
  5. lib Local libraries
  6. man Local online manuals
  7. sbin Local system binaries
  8. share Local architecture-independent hierarchy
  9. src Local source code

No other directories, except those listed below, may be in /usr/local after first installing a FHS-compliant system.

This means that I have to unzip the JDK file and put, for example, the JDK's bin folder inside of /usr/local/bin, JDK's manuals in /usr/local/man, and so on with the other folders?

Braiam
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leonardo.manrique
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  • Why not just install those packages your distro provides? – Braiam Jun 19 '15 at 21:45
  • Most distributiond install the java packages from their respective repositories (as Braiam suggests) in the /opt directory which is FHS compliant... Each user gets their source code in a centralized location. – eyoung100 Jun 20 '15 at 01:07

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Given that elementary OS is based on Ubuntu, you have a couple of options.

  1. You can install OpenJDK using the openjdk-7 or openjdk-8 packages; I'm not sure the latter are available in elementary OS though.

  2. You can re-package an Oracle JDK (including JDK 8) using the java-package package which is also available in elementary OS. This will give you an FHS-compliant package which will also integrate nicely with the Java alternatives system which is used in Debian derivatives.

Stephen Kitt
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