[Slackbuilds-users] jdk and sbopkg

[Matteo Bernardini]

2018-04-10 16:48 GMT+02:00 JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com>:
> I believe that Oracle's jdk tarball cannot be downloaded without human
> intervention - i.e. one must agree to whatever it is that Oracle specifies,
> before the tarball can be downloaded. This is not a big deal for
> Slackbuilds, but it is a pain for sbopkg. In fact, it is a bit of a pain for
> any packages (e.g. libreoffice) that depend on jdk, if one wants to build
> them with sbopkg.
>
> Given that Oracle is not likely to change their policy any time soon, is it
> worth the while even allowing to install jdk with sbopkg, since it just
> won't work? Or am I missing something, and jdk can indeed be installed with
> sbopkg?

you just have to download the correct tarball and then place it under
/var/cache/sbopkg, then you can build it fine.