As many of you already know, Oracle Java requires logging in to an Oracle account to download most versions (all except Oracle Java 12). A while back I created Oracle Java 11 and 12 installer packages (based on the package by Web Upd8), and a PPA for Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

Since Oracle Java 11 can’t be directly downloaded from Oracle any more, the installer no longer works, so I created a new installer that requires the user to create an Oracle account, download the Oracle Java 11 .tar.gz archive (the same version as the installer), and place the archive in /var/cache/oracle-jdk11-installer-local/. After this, you can install the oracle-java11-installer-local package, and it will set up Oracle Java 11 for you.

Everything else works as before. You can install the oracle-java11-set-default-local package to set Oracle Java 11 as default for example (not only set it as default using a .jinfo file and update-alternatives, but also export the JAVA_HOME environment variable, etc.).

This was the only way I could think of to work around the fact that Oracle now requires users to create an account and login to download most Oracle Java versions. If you can think of a better way, please let me know!

I will delete the old oracle-java11-installer package since it no longer works. I recommend removing it, and using the new oracle-java11-installer-local package. Or better yet, switch from Oracle Java to OpenJDK or some other JDK build, since Oracle now uses a commercial license, and you can only use Java at no cost for development and testing, but it requires a fee to use it in production.

The Oracle Java 12 installer package still works, so I didn’t create a “local” installer for it yet, but I will create a similar package when it stops working.

Related: Install The Latest OpenJDK 12, 11 or 8 in Ubuntu, Debian or RHEL Using Zulu OpenJDK Builds

These are step by step instructions for installing Oracle Java 11 using the new “oracle-java11-installer-local” package:

1. Create an Oracle account at https://profile.oracle.com/myprofile/account/create-account.jspx and sign in

2. Download Oracle JDK 11 .tar.gz archive. Make sure the Oracle JDK version you’re downloading is the same as the oracle-java11-installer-local package version. E.g. the installer is currently version 11.0.3, so it can be used to install Oracle JDK 11.0.3.

3. Create a /var/cache/oracle-jdk11-installer-local/ folder, and copy the Oracle JDK 11 .tar.gz to this folder.

For example, create the /var/cache/oracle-jdk11-installer-local/ folder and copy jdk-11.0.3_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz to this folder (from the current directory) using:

sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/oracle-jdk11-installer-local/
sudo cp jdk-11.0.3_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz /var/cache/oracle-jdk11-installer-local/

4. Purge the old oracle-java11-installer package if you had it installed:

sudo apt purge oracle-java11-installer

5. Add the Linux Uprising Java PPA (it works on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, elementary OS, and any other Debian or Ubuntu based Linux distribution) and install the oracle-java11-installer-local package to set up Oracle Java 11:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install oracle-java11-installer-local

6. This is optional. Use the command below to install oracle-java11-set-default-local, which makes Oracle JDK 11 default:

sudo apt install oracle-java11-set-default-local