Question

I’m automating the process of building development-VMs for a project and having a really hard time getting sun-java-6 to install in a non-interactive environment because it really wants to ask about licenses. what are my other options are far as clojure friendly javas go?

Answer 1

If I recall correctly the “accept the license” bit can be set explicitly as the output from the installation process says that the license has already been accepted at a later stage. Hence, look into the Ubuntu package and figure out how to do this.

I would not go the OpenJDK way as I do not believe it has passed the TCK yet.

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EDIT: It appears that this is the way to do it:

DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y java5-sun-jre || :
debconf 'echo SET shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 true; echo $(read) >&2'
apt-get install -y java5-sun-jre

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