Where is the generic linux binary openjdk7.tar.gz? [closed]

Question

Where can I get a vanilla tar.gz binary build download of openjdk7 for linux, similar to the oracle/sun vanilla jdk download?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, such files do not exist. You can follow these instructions to install OpenJDK for Linux distributions that use DEB and RPM packages.

You could extract the files from the DEB (using dpkg-deb or ar) or RPM (using rpm2cpio [1] [2] [3]) packages and create your own tarball.

Or, if you're up for the challenge, you can compile your own build using the build instructions. The nice thing about building your own is that you can create a debug build (Google does not return much information on debug builds, but you can look at the Makefile for some information), which avails useful debugging options.

Answer 2

You may find OpenJDK7 binaries for Linux (built on Debian Squeeze) in openjdk-unofficial-builds github project. *-image.zip files contain plain archives of JDK without installers.

Disclaimer: I've built them myself

Edit: typo about macos

Answer 3

You can download/install OpenJDK 6 & 7 here http://openjdk.java.net/install/

You can download the latest source bundle here http://download.java.net/openjdk/jdk7/

If you have mercurial you can even download the source for the pre-release Java 8. (however it may not be that different yet, except for more bugs perhaps ;)