Nixpkgs: How to download the oraclejdk package

[abhi18av]

Hi everyone,

I'd like to know how can I install the oraclejdk8 which seems to be listed here
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/development/compilers/oraclejdk

I do need oraclejdk for my workload and so far I've been trying without any success.

Please do help me out :)

[srhb]

Please see this section on installing unfree software and after setting the relevant settings, try installing it again. It should emit instructions that you can follow.

https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#chap-packageconfig

Particularly, system-wide:

# /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
{
  nixpkgs.config = {
    allowUnfree = true;
  };
}

Or user-wide:

# ~/.config/nixpkgs/config.nix
{
  allowUnfree = true;
}

[Ma27]

The main issue with the OracleJDK is that you need to accept their licenses before the actual download which is implemented with requireFile in nixpkgs.

Most packages render instructions how to install the unfree tarball into the Nix store, obviously the oraclejdk doesn't (as I unfortunately have to use it as well for work, I'll file a patch tonight to fix this).

I did the following:

• download the proper JDK (jdk-8u181-linux-x64.tar.gz in my case) from https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html (IIRC you don't need an Oracle account for this)
• run `nix-prefetch-url file:///path/to/the/tarball
• allow unfree packages in your config (as @srhb explained)
• install pkgs.oraclejdk in your configuration.nix or nix-env -iA

[srhb]

@Ma27 Under which circumstances does the oraclejdk derivation fail to render the requireFile instructions?

[Ma27]

ah my bad, I forgot that requireFile delivers an error message for this if now message is passed to requireFile, sorry! :sweat_smile:

[srhb]

No problem, was just confused as I couldn't reproduce it. :D

[volth]

generally, overriding requireFile helps

something like

nixpkgs.overlays = [
  (self: super:
  let
    oracleurls = {
      "jdk-8u171-linux-x64.tar.gz"            = http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u171-b11/512cd62ec5174c3487ac17c61aaa89e8/jdk-8u171-linux-x64.tar.gz;
      "jdk-8u171-linux-i586.tar.gz"           = http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u171-b11/512cd62ec5174c3487ac17c61aaa89e8/jdk-8u171-linux-i586.tar.gz;
      "jdk-8u171-linux-arm32-vfp-hflt.tar.gz" = http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u171-b11/512cd62ec5174c3487ac17c61aaa89e8/jdk-8u171-linux-arm32-vfp-hflt.tar.gz;
      "jdk-8u171-linux-arm64-vfp-hflt.tar.gz" = http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u171-b11/512cd62ec5174c3487ac17c61aaa89e8/jdk-8u171-linux-arm64-vfp-hflt.tar.gz;

      "jdk-8u181-linux-x64.tar.gz"            = http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u181-b13/96a7b8442fe848ef90c96a2fad6ed6d1/jdk-8u181-linux-x64.tar.gz;
      "jdk-8u181-linux-i586.tar.gz"           = http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u181-b13/96a7b8442fe848ef90c96a2fad6ed6d1/jdk-8u181-linux-i586.tar.gz;
      "jdk-8u181-linux-arm32-vfp-hflt.tar.gz" = http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u181-b13/96a7b8442fe848ef90c96a2fad6ed6d1/jdk-8u181-linux-arm32-vfp-hflt.tar.gz;
      "jdk-8u181-linux-arm64-vfp-hflt.tar.gz" = http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u181-b13/96a7b8442fe848ef90c96a2fad6ed6d1/jdk-8u181-linux-arm64-vfp-hflt.tar.gz;
    };
    requireFileOracle = {name, sha256, url}: self.stdenv.mkDerivation {
      inherit name;
      outputHashMode = "flat";
      outputHashAlgo = "sha256";
      outputHash = sha256;
      buildCommand = "${self.curl}/bin/curl -L --insecure -o $out -H 'Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie' ${oracleurls.${name}}";
    };
  in {
    oraclejdk8 = super.oraclejdk8.override { requireFile = requireFileOracle; };
  })
];

[srhb]

@abhi18av I am closing this since everything appears to be working correctly. Please feel free to leave another comment if you still require assistance.

[mardambey]

  nixpkgs.config = { 

    allowUnfree = true;
    oraclejdk.accept_license = true;

  }