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@staylorx for Debian-based systems I believe the packaging is done differently so I can have 2 versions and the `default` makes sense. on RedHat systems I'm installing a RPM so...

It's a valid point and I'll keep the issue open. I'll probably release a v5 version of this role that just uses tarball and installer (which means it would work...

No. I believe it requires a new implementation of this role that doesn't use a debian package to install JDK and it's not a priority for me. Feel free to...

What if I want to install multiple versions of java on the same server? What should the value be? Do you want to provide a PR to this repo updating...

``` New in version 2.4. ``` I still have to support 1.9 and 2.0 therefore we'll need to live with this for a while.

@mauriziod this seems to indicate that you had another process running `apt-get update` or `apt-get install`. during my tests I haven't found this problem yet.

if _download_ from Oracle doesn't work how do you suppose any other type of installation will work better? _curl_ the tarball will still fail, no?

the Oracle website is redirecting to an inexisting URL: ``` Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|2.16.4.178|:80... connected.", "HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily ``` is there anything you expect me...

@namitmr please provide the steps you used and I'll build the fallback mechanism this weekend.

``` Goal: provide a way for users to install Oracle JDK by performing a direct download, untar, etc as opposed to using the .dev package. ```