Question

I was running a tutorial on YouTube for installing Oracle JDK on Linux. My script seems to have worked but I can no longer run

wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u3-b04/jdk-7u3-linux-i586.tar.gz

What new methodology or script can I use to install Oracle JSK on Linux?

Answer 1

Yes, the Oracle JDK link is broken, you have to click through the website and accept the terms.

Second link on Google, the first being this question (Wow, Googlebot is fast) is an Oracle discussion thread:

Hi,

Unfortunately we have to require license acceptance prior to download.
This can be implemented in one of two ways. Either we require
registration and log in prior to download, and as part of registering
you agree to reading and complying with licenses. Or we use a
click-through on download which avoids the need to register and log
in. We have chosen the latter for Java downloads as the least
intrusive method. We found out some time ago that scripts were being
used to circumvent click-through (in violation of site policies, and
frankly also of common sense) and have plugged this hole.

We understand that this makes command line updates from our main
website for Linux users impossible and are actively looking for other
ways to enable this use case.

Oracle JDK is based on OpenJDK (with a few added components like a
closed-source font rasterizer that we license from a third party) and
the latter is available as part of most Linux distributions, so it is
a good option unless you specifically need the Oracle certified
binaries.

Regards,

Henrik Ståhl Sr. Director, Product Management Java Platform Group
Oracle