Ubuntu 18.04 JDK install failing because of weird dependency issues about ansible-role-java HOT 16 CLOSED

See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863199#23

I had the same issue and solved it using
mkdir -p /usr/share/man/man1
before installing openjdk-8-jre-headless

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@dudefellah your suggestion worked for me - Debian within a Docker container. Just added the following to the Dockerfile before apt-get:
RUN mkdir /usr/share/man/man1/

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I was just getting annoyed with this in the Debian buster-slim docker image. I don't think the issue is really specific to this role (despite the fact that I didn't actually look at how this role works). In a Docker container, the manpages path isn't available since it has minimal packages installed:

update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/rmid to provide /usr/bin/rmid (rmid) in auto mode
update-alternatives: error: error creating symbolic link '/usr/share/man/man1/rmid.1.gz.dpkg-tmp': No such file or directory

So if you just manually add that path, or install a package that creates that path, you should be able to avoid this problem.

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@bogdan-marian, @jdbohrman did you resolve it? happening in docker with debian here.

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@dudefellah / @chopstik — that's exactly the solution I came to in this comment: #64 (comment)

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Just install man

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Just install man

Didn't work for me! Had to RUN mkdir /usr/share/man/man1/

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Strangest part is:

Package java8-runtime-headless is not installed.

I don't see a java8-runtime-headless package or virtual package anywhere...

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And installing default-jdk doesn't work either. Couldn't find an upstream bug report.

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It is happening again in ubuntu 18.04

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Same, happening to me as well.

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you have to remove the line "Depends: java-runtime" from ./jmx_prometheus_httpserver/src/deb/control/control and then run mvn package to rebuild a new package
I have the same issue because I use openjdk and not oracle jvm

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This is strange. What does this directory store and how did the installation work after creating it?

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Thanks to @dudefellah, @chopstik!

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For future readers: when using it with include_role task and you got this error still, it may be that globally you have become: no while this role requires yes. Solution: override become just for this task:

---
- hosts: all
  become: no
    tasks:
.....
    - name: Install Java
      vars:
        java_packages:
          - openjdk-8-jdk
      include_role:
        name: geerlingguy.java
        apply:
          become: true   # < --- this one

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See: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=863199#23

I had the same issue and solved it using
mkdir -p /usr/share/man/man1
before installing openjdk-8-jre-headless

Met the same issue, the soultion works ,thanks !

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