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> I installed jdk quite a few times without root and never had a problem. Jdk only depends on essential system libraries like libc.

The Ubuntu repos suggests there are more dependencies than just plain libc.

https://packages.ubuntu.com/hirsute/openjdk-11-jre

Could it be you have those dependencies satisfied through other things you’ve already installed?

> Do you have a reference to your claim that Java requires libssl?

None at all. It was an example of something I found it reasonable it might depend on, since .NET also depends on that on Linux :)




The package manager provided distributions tend to have different dependencies than the tarballs from Oracle.




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