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Seems expected. Everyone moved away when they announced it wasn't free anymore. https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/Middleware/2511229_1.ht...

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And it wasn’t possible to perform unattended installations, because they required to approve the license manually (“y” from keyboard input), so Oracle JDK was excluded from any Ansible/Puppet/Docker deployment or Linux distribution. Immediate roadblock.

You can absolutely programmatically have apt make arbitrary selections like this with debconf.

debconf-set-selections is your friend.

yes | apt install whatever could work too.

or just apt -y

It just worked great with the apt packages to install Oracle Java 7 and 8 (when that packages worked...)

Not sure that would work in this case, `apt -y` would tell apt to skip confirmations, packages can still do their own confirmation. Also, NONINTERACTIVE=true (or what it is) I don't think would have worked either, as Oracle famously do their own thing.

Wow, what a moronic decision by Oracle. Automating installations is so important, if you're deploying 1000 servers, to not be able to automate (even just for the one character button) is stupid.

I guess the license was so expensive that no one would have installed it on 1000 servers.

Assuming each server was 4 cores, that's 4000 processors. So you get their bargain $15/month/core pricing versus the base $25/month/core pricing.

Your monthly bill would be $60k. Presumably you would negotiate some additional discount, but still...ouch.

https://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/price-lists/java...

The thing that killed most folks was the virtualized machines. They price on host, not guest OS. Got a 4 core virtual machine on a 128 core host... 128 cores need to be licensed. Those small web apps became crazy expensive where physical hardware is discouraged.

When lawyers come before engineering, that's what you get.

Not true - you can zip it and paste it anywhere. I don't think anyone would use their installer in automated deployment...

It was easy to add it using cookies/or header - few Linux distributions did that this way.

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