It comes down to licencing issues. Sun and now Oracle has always been very particular about what they see as bundling. While they have repos for ubuntu, redhat,centos,suse, etc. they don't allow those repos to be installed in standard distributions unless you are paying them a fee for doing so. You, the system owner/admin are free to install it on your own systems, as long as you acquire it from them, not your OS provider.
I have been doing java on linux for a long time and it has ever been a pain. I still find important java artifacts in some distros which want to depend on gcj. For this reason, while I am glad to maintain java itself through an Oracle-provided ppa, I manage systems built on java without the use of apt/yum/etc. I gave up long ago on the idea that sane java integration was something that open platforms can provide as long as Oracle keeps that part closed. On Jul 7, 2014 6:25 AM, "Cox, Cory (Agoda)" <cory....@agoda.com> wrote: > I have had the same issue. Not an expert on this… but I think it is more > a consequence of the CentOS repo than cassandra rpm. The Oracle JVM > packages are not available and it appears you need to download (after > accepting license) the rpm and use the rpm command to install the package. > Wget is also problematic as the url appears to be littered with other html > in the response… I had to download and scp to the box and then install Java > BEFORE installing Casandra to avoid the dependency triggering an auto > install of the openjdk. > > > > Any repo experts please jump in… > > > > Thanks, > > [image: Cory M Cox Signature small] > Cory Cox > > Senior Database Administrator > > [image: > http://sharepoint.agoda.local/PR/Communications/Agoda%20logo%20with%20slogan.png] > > a Priceline ® company > > > > *From:* Wim Deblauwe [mailto:wim.debla...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Monday, July 07, 2014 13:50 > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: Why is yum pulling in open JDK ? > > > > Hi, > > > > I am very aware that Cassandra needs Java. I was just wondering why > 'openjdk' is the dependency while it is advised to use the Oracle Java. > > > > regards, > > > > Wim > > > > 2014-07-06 21:54 GMT+02:00 Patricia Gorla <patri...@thelastpickle.com>: > > Wim, > > > > > openjdk > > > > Java is a dependency of Cassandra, so if you do not have Java already > installed on your computer, yum will automatically do so. The Oracle Java > JVM must be installed separately. > > > > > dsc20, cassandra20 > > > > The first installation target is for Datastax Community version 2.0, while > the latter installs Apache Cassandra 2.0 > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Patricia Gorla > > @patriciagorla > > > > Consultant > > Apache Cassandra Consulting > > http://www.thelastpickle.com <http://thelastpickle.com> > > > > ------------------------------ > This message is confidential and is for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s). It may also be privileged or otherwise protected by copyright > or other legal rules. If you have received it by mistake please let us know > by reply email and delete it from your system. It is prohibited to copy > this message or disclose its content to anyone. Any confidentiality or > privilege is not waived or lost by any mistaken delivery or unauthorized > disclosure of the message. All messages sent to and from Agoda may be > monitored to ensure compliance with company policies, to protect the > company's interests and to remove potential malware. Electronic messages > may be intercepted, amended, lost or deleted, or contain viruses. >
