apt-get installing oracle java 7 stopped working

Question

Recently apt-get install -y oracle-java7-installer stopped working.

I know in their roadmap, I think the public version is no longer supported, but it\'s be

Answer 1

You can find the webupd8team ppa's online. The oracle-java7-installer has the version number "7u80+7u60arm-0~webupd8~1" I'm guessing this defect would occur for all the provided ubuntu versions!

Looking in one of the ppa's a few of the files directly reference the broken url identified by Meir Maor

debian/oracle-java7-unlimited-jce-policy.postinst:PARTNER_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jce/7/$FILENAME
debian/oracle-java7-unlimited-jce-policy.config:PARTNER_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jce/7/$FILENAME
debian/oracle-java7-installer.config:   PARTNER_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u80-b15/$FILENAME # Must be modified for each release!!!
debian/oracle-java7-installer.config:   PARTNER_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u60-b19/$FILENAME # Must be modified for each release!!!
debian/oracle-java7-installer.postinst: PARTNER_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u80-b15/$FILENAME # Must be modified for each release!!!
debian/oracle-java7-installer.postinst: PARTNER_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u60-b19/$FILENAME # Must be modified for each release!!!

unfortunately I can't figure out how to lodge a defect with them (yet) but presumably this would be a quick fix