How to handle java8 installation issue when building h2o docker image [using Dockerfile in the repository]

Question

I'm trying to build an H2o docker image, using https://github.com/h2oai/h2o-3/blob/master/Dockerfile.

It gets the following error:

E: Package 'oracle-java8-installer' has no installation candidate

The command '/bin/sh -c echo 'DPkg::Post-Invoke {"/bin/rm -f /var/cache/apt/archives/.deb || true";};' | tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-cache && echo "deb http://mirror.math.princeton.edu/pub/ubuntu xenial main universe" >> /etc/apt/sources.list && apt-get update -q -y && apt-get dist-upgrade -y && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/cache/apt/ && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y wget unzip python-pip python-sklearn python-pandas python-numpy python-matplotlib software-properties-common python-software-properties && add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/java && apt-get update -q && echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | debconf-set-selections && echo debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 seen true | debconf-set-selections && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y oracle-java8-installer && apt-get clean && wget http://h2o-release.s3.amazonaws.com/h2o/latest_stable -O latest && wget --no-check-certificate -i latest -O /opt/h2o.zip && unzip -d /opt /opt/h2o.zip && rm /opt/h2o.zip && cd /opt && cd find . -name 'h2o.jar' | sed 's/.\///;s/\/h2o.jar//g' && cp h2o.jar /opt && /usr/bin/pip install find . -name "*.whl" && cd / && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h2oai/h2o-3/master/docker/start-h2o-docker.sh && chmod +x start-h2o-docker.sh && wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/h2o-training/mnist/train.csv.gz && gunzip train.csv.gz && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurendiperna/Churn_Scripts/master/Extraction_Script.py && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurendiperna/Churn_Scripts/master/Transformation_Script.py && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laurendiperna/Churn_Scripts/master/Modeling_Script.py' returned a non-zero code: 100

I'm assuming it may be related to the recent Oracle JDK License Update.

Is there a way to resolve this error in building the docker image?

are you following the walkthrough here: docs.h2o.ai/h2o/latest-stable/h2o-docs/…, if not can you list the your steps and a bit about your OS? thanks! — Lauren
Hi Lauren, I had used the same Dockerfile as in the Dockerfile template. The error was related to installation of java 8. — Parvin Dadgar
hi parvin, are you still having issues? are you running this on linux or some other os? — Lauren
Hi Lauren, i'm using Mac os. I already had docker set up. and used github.com/h2oai/h2o-3/blob/master/Dockerfile for building the image. It got failed in step related to java-8-installation — Parvin Dadgar
parvin, please also feel free to create a jira ticket (jira.h2o.ai) for the needed update. thanks for pointing this out! — Lauren

Rondo Rondo · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-20T19:22:50

Yes it the pkg appears to have been removed from the repository. I created the following on Mar 26th and it built successfully that day...

From ubuntu:16.04
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get upgrade -y
RUN apt-get install -y  software-properties-common
RUN add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
RUN apt-get update
RUN echo oracle-java8-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections
RUN apt-get install -y oracle-java8-installer

And today this is the result

Step 8/8 : RUN apt-get install -y oracle-java8-installer
 ---> Running in 1bba5bac63e9
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package oracle-java8-installer is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package 'oracle-java8-installer' has no installation candidate
The command '/bin/sh -c apt-get install -y oracle-java8-installer' returned a non-zero code: 100

I've already moved to OpenJDK and am experimenting with Corretto

Update:

The PPA has been discontinued... see their notice here: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java

How to handle java8 installation issue when building h2o docker image [using Dockerfile in the repository]

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