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Installed it to give it a go. It's impossible to install java on it. This is makes it fairly useless for my purposes. sigh

• JdeBP 11y ago
  What goes wrong when you try to install Java?
  • krisroadruck 11y ago
    if you go the apt-get route you get a sha256sum mismatch on both java7 & java8. If you try to be clever and manually download it and throw it in the cache, same story. If you try to be really really clever and manually download it and try to manually extract the tar it throws a bunch of cannot create symlink: invalid argument errors. I spent a good 2+ hours trying to force it to install in various ways. For now at least it seems java is not meant to be on Windows Bash.
    • JdeBP 11y ago
      For those interested in this, here's a more detailed report from someone named Joachim Moeyens. * https://community.lsst.org/t/lsst-stack-on-ubuntu-linux-on-windows/666 https://community.lsst.org/t/lsst-stack-on-ubuntu-linux-on-w... Be aware that the Java8 installer/uninstaller has other potential symbolic link problems (not "invalid argument", though) that exist on actual Ubuntu Linux. * http://askubuntu.com/questions/608961/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/608961/ * http://askubuntu.com/questions/653885/ http://askubuntu.com/questions/653885/