In order to run the neo4j server on my Ubuntu 12.04 Vagrant VM I needed to install the Oracle/Sun JDK which proved to be more difficult than I’d expected.
I initially tried to install it via the OAB-Java script but was running into some dependency problems and eventually came across a post which specified a PPA that had an installer I could use.
I wrote a little puppet Java module to wrap the commands in:
class java($version) {
package { "python-software-properties": }
exec { "add-apt-repository-oracle":
command => "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java",
notify => Exec["apt_update"]
}
package { 'oracle-java7-installer':
ensure => "${version}",
require => [Exec['add-apt-repository-oracle']],
}
}
I then included this in my default node definition:
node default {
class { 'java': version => '7u21-0~webupd8~0', }
}
Unfortunately when I ran that I ended up with the following error:
err: /Stage[main]/Java/Package[oracle-java7-installer]/ensure: change from purged to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold install oracle-java7-installer' returned 100: Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following extra packages will be installed: java-common Suggested packages: ... Unpacking oracle-java7-installer (from .../oracle-java7-installer_7u21-0~webupd8~0_all.deb) ... oracle-license-v1-1 license could not be presented try 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' to select a frontend other than noninteractive dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/oracle-java7-installer_7u21-0~webupd8~0_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/oracle-java7-installer_7u21-0~webupd8~0_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I came across this post on Ask Ubuntu which explained a neat trick for getting around it by making it look like we’ve agreed to the licence. This is done by passing options to debconf-set-selections.
For a real server I guess you’d want some step where a person accepts the licence but since this is just for my hacking it seems to make sense.
My new Java manifest looks like this:
class java($version) {
package { "python-software-properties": }
exec { "add-apt-repository-oracle":
command => "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java",
notify => Exec["apt_update"]
}
exec {
'set-licence-selected':
command => '/bin/echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections';
'set-licence-seen':
command => '/bin/echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 seen true | /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections';
}
package { 'oracle-java7-installer':
ensure => "${version}",
require => [Exec['add-apt-repository-oracle'], Exec['set-licence-selected'], Exec['set-licence-seen']],
}
}
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