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I've pretty much always used the offline installer with Windows (I'd stick it on a flash drive and keep it in my bag with other useful installs like editors, SS

I've pretty much always used the offline installer with Windows (I'd stick it on a flash drive and keep it in my bag with other useful installs like editors, SSH, etc.). But it's worth pointing out that this is a Java-on-Windows problem exclusively. It doesn't happen on OS X or Linux. I can't imagine the day when "apt-get install default-jdk" prompts me to install a toolbar...

JasonFruit 14y ago
I would have said that I can't imagine the day when searching my Ubuntu machine would return Amazon.com results, but that day has come, too. So yes, for now, it's a Java-on-Windows problem exclusively.
Symmetry 14y ago
True, but remember that you can't apt-get the JVM anymore since Oracle changed the license for the newer versions, so I could very well imagine this happening to me on my Linux box unless my company switches over to OpenJDK.
- grosskur 14y ago
  I've found https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6 https://github.com/flexiondotorg/oab-java6 really useful. It's a shell script that downloads the Java binaries from Oracle, builds Debian packages for them, stashes them at /var/local/oab/deb, and adds this directory as a local apt repo for your system. The net effect is 'apt-get install sun-java6-jre' works again like it used to.
JBiserkov 14y ago
>I can't imagine the day when "apt-get install default-jdk" prompts me to install a toolbar... How about the day it doesn't prompt you and installs it anyway...