Installing Jdk Without Sudo

Installing jdk without sudo?

You can install the JDK in a non-standard directory, for example under your own home directory, without special permissions.

You just need to point PATH and JAVA_HOME and Eclipse at it.

Installing JDK without administrator privileges

Here is a workaround to install java without admin privileges or without administrator password. For this you need cygwin installed which does not require admin privileges.
In the utils make sure you select cabextract.exe to install it.

Fireup cygwin bash shell.

Type cabextract jdk1.6.exe <-- jdk file name

this will extract all the files into the current directory.

Move tools.zip to a new directory and unzip it using cygwin or windows explorer. This will be your java directory.

Hint: Try to subsitite 7zip instead of cabextract and cygwin. If it works it will be much faster.

Edit: This doesn't get you a working JDK with the latest versions of jdk 6 and 7. Many of the jar files (eg rt.jar) are compressed so they need to be decompressed using unpack200.

Just go through each directory looking for files with a .pack extension and unpack them using unpack200, eg: .\jre\bin\unpack200 .\jre\lib\rt.pack .\jre\lib\rt.jar

This allows you to run java programs however I still had trouble with Eclipse as there was some issue with annotations, so there's probably another step that is missing.

In the answers to this similar question on Superuser is available a script that automatically finds all .pack files and unpacks them in the right folders.

How to install java locally - no root - on linux, if possible?

It is quite easy...

Download the JDK as a tarball from Oracle (a simple google search will yield the link).

Unzip it somewhere in your $HOME (for instance, $HOME/jdk).

Set JAVA_HOME to the path of the root JDK install; then prepend $JAVA_HOME/bin to your PATH.

And off you go.

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Here I have a particular setting insofar as I run three different major versions of the JDK: 6, 7, 8. For instance, here is my source file for setting the current shell to use Java 8:

$ cat ~/.jdk/8
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/sunjdk/1.8/current
export PATH="$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH"

And in /opt/sunjdk/1.8 (given that /opt/sunjdk is writable by my user hence I don't need to be root):

$ ls -l /opt/sunjdk/1.8/* -d
lrwxrwxrwx 1 fge fge  11 Oct 30 10:09 /opt/sunjdk/1.8/current -> jdk1.8.0_25
drwxr-xr-x 1 fge fge 274 Mar 18  2014 /opt/sunjdk/1.8/jdk1.8.0_05
drwxr-xr-x 1 fge fge 274 Sep 18 02:44 /opt/sunjdk/1.8/jdk1.8.0_25

(and yes, I was root to begin with so as to grant write permissions for /opt/sunjdk to "my" user; if you have no such liberty, just create another directory in your home)

How to install the JDK on Ubuntu Linux

Referring to Ask Ubuntu question How to set JAVA_HOME for OpenJDK?,

How to install Open JDK (Java developement kit) in Ubuntu (Linux)?

1. Open Terminal from Application Dash or press Ctrl+Alt+T

2. Update repository:

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa  # only Ubuntu 17.4 and earlier
   sudo apt update
   

3. Optional: To search available distributions of openjdk, use the following command:

   apt search openjdk
   

4. Install the appropriate version with the following command:

   sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk
   sudo apt install openjdk-8-source #this is optional, the jdk source code
   

5. For JAVA_HOME (Environment Variable) type command as shown below, in "Terminal" using your installation path...

   export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk
   

   (Note: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk is symbolically used here just for demostration. You should use your path as per your installation.)

6. For PATH (Environment Variable) type command as shown below, in Terminal:

   export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

7. To check your installation:

   java -version

I want to install Java through the command line but I don't have sudo access.

You don't really have to install it. You should be able to navigate into [your jdk folder]/bin and run ./javac -version.

So just add the bin folder to your path and set $JAVA_HOME and you're good to go.

How to install JDK 11 under Ubuntu?

Now it is possible to install openjdk-11 this way:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-11-jdk

(Previously it installed openjdk-10, but not anymore)

How to install JDK 10 under Ubuntu?

Update: JDK 11 Now Available

sudo apt-get install openjdk-11-jdk

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For JDK 10

Option 1: Easy Installation (PPA)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java10-installer

Then set as default with:

sudo apt-get install oracle-java10-set-default

And finally verify Installation with:

$ java -version
java version "10.0.1" 2018-04-17
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.3 (build 10.0.1+10)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.3 (build 10.0.1+10, mixed mode)

Source: Linux Uprising

Option 2: Manual Installation

• Download OpenJDK 10 binaries for Linux.

• Untar the downloaded archive:

  tar xzvf openjdk-10_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz
  

• Move the extracted archive to where your system keeps your installed JDKs:

  sudo mv jdk-10 /usr/lib/jvm/java-10-openjdk-amd64/
  

• Add the new Java alternative:

  sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/java-10-openjdk-amd64/bin/java 1
  sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/lib/jvm/java-10-openjdk-amd64/bin/javac 1
  

• Update your system's java alternatives and choose JDK 10:

  $ sudo update-alternatives --config java
  here are 3 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).
  
    Selection    Path                                            Priority   Status
  ------------------------------------------------------------
    0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/bin/java       1091      auto mode
  * 1            /usr/lib/jvm/java-10-openjdk-amd64/bin/java      1         manual mode
    2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java   1081      manual mode
    3            /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/bin/java       1091      manual mode
  
  Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 
  

  and

  $ sudo update-alternatives --config javac
  There are 3 choices for the alternative javac (providing /usr/bin/javac).
  
    Selection    Path                                          Priority   Status
  ------------------------------------------------------------
  * 0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/bin/javac    1091      auto mode
    1            /usr/lib/jvm/java-10-openjdk-amd64/bin/javac   1         manual mode
    2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin/javac    1081      manual mode
    3            /usr/lib/jvm/java-9-openjdk-amd64/bin/javac    1091      manual mode
  
  Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 1
  update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-10-openjdk-amd64/bin/javac to provide /usr/bin/javac (javac) in manual mode
  

• Verify your installation with:

  $ java --version
  openjdk 10 2018-03-20
  OpenJDK Runtime Environment 18.3 (build 10+46)
  OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 18.3 (build 10+46, mixed mode)
  

  and

  $ javac --version
  javac 10
  

• Done

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If you prefer Oracle's JDK, download it and follow the installation steps as shown above.

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