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I'm trying to install Sun's Java SDK 7 by following the Debian Wiki instructions using java-package. But it won't work on an OpenVZ proxmox container.

I'm running Debian Wheezy 7.0-2 64bit on all my environments.

java-package works fine on my local machine and on other virtualized Debian machines ( KVM or VirtualBox) but not on my container.

When I try to make-jpkg jdk-7u25-linux-x64.tar.gz I get the following error:

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Anyone know how to solve this or is it just one of those things that cannot be done in a container?

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  • Can you run gunzip against the package and it works?
    – Nathan C
    Aug 27, 2013 at 18:09
  • @NathanC: No, it says gzip: jdk-7u25-linux-x64.tar.gz: not in gzip format perhaps it's a corrupt file? BUt I tried downloading it three times.
    – capdragon
    Aug 27, 2013 at 18:13
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    Try file jdk-7u25-linux-x64.tar.gz and see what it outputs. Maybe tar -xzf jdk-7u25-linux-x64.tar.gz?
    – Nathan C
    Aug 27, 2013 at 18:15
  • pft! Please put that as the answer so I can give you credit. file said it was an HTML file. wget was downloading some HTML handler for the download instead of the file itself. So I nano'd the file and sure enough: <html>... Thanks!
    – capdragon
    Aug 27, 2013 at 18:17

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It looks like the file you were working with was corrupted and not an actual tar.gz file. Redownload it via another method (even using something like lynx) and it will work.

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