How can I get the latest JRE JDK as a zip file rather than EXE or MSI installer

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I like to be sure that everything will work just by copying the contents of the Java folder and setting the environment variables  I usually run the installer in a virtual machine  zip the  java folder contents  go back to a snapshot of the virtual machine  and then unzip the compressed file  I couldn t find a place where the latest JRE   JDK is available as a zip file    http   java sun com javase downloads index jsp http   download java net jdk6  Alternately  is it safe to assume that exe installer from sun just will just unzip the whole thing  without messing around with the registry  environment variables  etc     Related  Installing Java manually on Windows  -- After all this time I found this site that seems to be exactly what I was looking for  2018-05-22

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JDK is not available as a portable ZIP file  unfortunately  However  you can follow these steps    Create working JDK directory  C  JDK in this case  Download latest version of JDK from Oracle  for example jdk-7u7-windows-x64 exe  Download and install 7-Zip  or download 7-Zip portable version if you are not administrator  With 7-Zip extract all the files from jdk-XuXX-windows-x64 exe into the directory C  JDK Execute the following commands in cmd exe    cd C  JDK  rsrc 1033 JAVA CAB10 extrac32 111  Unpack C  JDK  rsrc 1033 JAVA CAB10 tools zip with 7-zip Execute the following commands in cmd exe    cd C  JDK  rsrc 1033 JAVA CAB10 tools  for  r  x in    pack  do   bin unpack200 -r   x     dx  px  nx jar   this will convert all  pack files into  jar files   Copy all contents of C  JDK  rsrc 1033 JAVA CAB10 tools where you want your JDK to be Setup JAVA HOME and PATH manually to point to your JDK dir and its BIN subdirectory

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OSX Instructions  Tested with jdk-8u74-macosx-x64 dmg    Download from Oracle the  dmg Mount the disk image Extract the  pkg  dragging it  Do not double-click  it will install   Open a terminal and cd into the package  mkdir jdk- version  amp  amp  cd jdk- version xar -xf    JDK  pkg cd jdkTAB tar zxf Payload The Contents Home folder contains the JDK

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Create destination folder where you can RWX  e g  C  jdk8  Download jdk exe from Oracle  e g  jdk-8u72-windows-x64 exe  Unzip the tools zip found inside it into the destination folder In cmd exe  run    cd C  jdk8 for  r  x in    pack  do   bin unpack200 -r   x     dx  px  nx jar     This solution works for JDK 8 too  without Admin rights

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The Process described by Igor and CharlesB Works to me  since IDE s like NetBeans and Eclipse permit specify the location of the JDK  even software like Apache Tomcat  the ZIP Distribution  use BASH - FILES to set it up  then specify the JDK location using relatives URI   I Have a USB-HardDisk With NetBeans  Eclipse  Apache Tomcat working with a JDK in  portable mode   I Had a way to extract a copy of the JDK from the installers files  Install it  Copy it in other place and then uninstall it  A dirty way to extract it  but was successfull  The place to put EXTRA - LIBS was   PLACE WHERE JDK ARE  jre lib ext

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try this  http   maven nuiton org nexus content repositories jvm com oracle jre   this link contains portable zip distributions for all versions

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The widely-upvoted answer is fine  I ve used it for quite some time in the form of this bat file    ECHO OFF  SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION  SET ROOT  cd   REM Get the tools zip from the innards of the installer 7z e   exe  rsrc 1033 JAVA CAB10 111 7z e 111 7z x tools zip REM Extract all 7z x -aoa tools zip -ojdk  del tools zip del 111  REM Searching directory structure from root for subfolders and zipfiles  FOR  F  delims      d IN   dir  ogne  ad  b  s   ROOT     DO       echo Descending into   d     FOR  F  delims      f IN   dir  b    d   pack    DO           echo Extracting    d   f          REM Extract all packs into jars          jdk bin unpack200 -r     d   f     d    nf jar           ENDLOCAL pause    It requires access on the path to 7zip  and must be run in a folder alongside the JDK of your choice  it ll find it because of the   exe up here    Works on 8u144  and I guess it worked from the 8u20 thing

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You can download a Java Portable from PortableApps com  It will not change your system settings  You can put it on your USB stick   UPD  for those who needs JDK there s an open-source project OpenJDK Portable  UPD2  there is also a JDK Portable  Oracle   Some people might be interested in official Oracle production-ready open source build of JDK

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mkdir c  JDK cd c  JDK git clone https   bitbucket org ramazanpolat jdk-8u112-windows-x64    or   git clone https   bitbucket org ramazanpolat jdk-8u112-windows-x86

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This link  http   www java com en download manual jsp  helps you at least avoid the obnoxious preload installer getting straight to the SDK   From there  I would install this in a throw-away VM  on your old crufty PC or elsewhere  then transfer the resulting  C  Program Files  x86  Java jre7    or similar  to your new machine  set the very few usual ENV variables  and there you ideally go  w o all the marketing junk and potential tie-ins  Of course  also w o the security from frequent automatic updates

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Here is a good  but a little complex  way   Stage 1  MSI  amp  CAB from native installation file   Download the JRE or JDK from the Oracle  Sun  website  This method will work on any version and on SDK or JRE  Run and wait for the installer to load  Minimize the window  In Windows 7  you should browse to this location   C  Users  YOUR USER NAME  AppData LocalLow Sun Java There  you will have a few MSI and CAB files      Stage 2  easily extract the MSI  amp  CAB using uniextract   Browse to Universal Extractor   LegRoom net and download UniExtract Binary Archive  Use WinRar or any un-RAR program available to you  and extract uniextract161 noinst rar anywhere      Stage 3  finally  extract the inner container named core zip   Drag  amp  drop jdk1 6 0 31 msi or jre1 6 0 31 msi on the icon of UniExtract exe  Select  Extract Method  MSI Administrative Installer   Wait for the process to finish  Enter the new created folder   If you ve drag-and-dropped jre1 6 0 31 msi you should have a jre1 6 0 31 folder Follow all levels inside and you ll see core zip   This is what you are after  You can just unzip it anywhere and you ll have the content of the Java runtime or SDK without installing anything on your system      You can now close the installer of Java you ve left opened in stage 1

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The answer has been given before  It  works for  jdk-8u91-windows-x64 exe  also   Unzip with 7-zip  so we get tools zip Unzip tools zip to a folder folder name so we get the contents in the picture  In cmd move to the folder folder name bin and run the command   java -version   the output will be   Error occurred during initialization of VM java lang NoClassDefFoundError  java lang Object   this indicates that there is something messing  Actually we need to unpack all packages    In cmd move to the folder folder name and automatically do the unpacking by executing the command   for  r  x in    pack  do   bin unpack200 -r   x     dx  px  nx jar  Do step 3 again  if you get the output bellow  then the JDK is ready to use       java version  1 8 0 91  Java TM  SE Runtime Environment  build 1 8 0 91-b15  Java HotSpot TM  64-Bit Server VM  build 25 91-b15  mixed mode

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http   www oracle com technetwork java javase downloads jre8-downloads-2133155 html  Here s where  Download the  gz package

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You can download a portable Zulu  zip archive from Azul Systems  which are builds of OpenJDK for Windows  Linux  RHEL  SUSE  Debian  Ubuntu  CentOS  and Mac OS X      Zulu is a certified build of OpenJDK that is fully compliant with the Java SE standard  Zulu is 100  open source and freely downloadable  Now Java developers  system administrators and end users can enjoy the full benefits of open source Java with deployment flexibility and control over upgrade timing    More technical information on different JVMs  including Zulu  with their architectures and OS support here

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You can just use 7zip  or another similar app  to get the dirs inside the core zip file that s bundled in the installer  Just use 7zip to browse the exe  you ll see a core zip file which has all the files that usually go inside  jreX  dir  where X is the major version number   As for setting env variables and the such  you can follow the other answers  If all you want is a portable jre  for example  you can run your jars by using java exe jarfile or javaw exe jarfile  then this solution will do  This is very similar to copying the jre dir from one place to another

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The Sun JVM is available as a MSI which is executable from a script   http   java sun com javase 6 docs technotes guides deployment deployment-guide install-msi html

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Install in sandbox  and copy the folder out

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Commands from tips below wrapped as batch script  Save this as unpack bat  Then place it to dir with jdk jre extracted files    echo off  cd  d    dp0  for  r   x in    pack  do   bin unpack200 -r    x      dx   px   nx jar

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Here is a link for JDK 5 zip file  sun-jdk-5-win32-x86-1 5 0 12 zip

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You can download SEVER JRE it contains jdk  server jre 7   Download server-jre- lt  version  tar gz file for windows system  If you have 7zip tar file can be extracted by that  I used cygwin cygwin can be installed without admin rights see this answer  to extract tar file with command tar xzvf file tar gz any other tar extractor will also work   Now extracted JDK folder will be created in same folder

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Download the Processing application from http   www processing org download   The zip file contains a folder called java  It includes the JDK 1 6 0 32  version checked on 19 02 2013

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Thanks for asking  the JDK does not seem to interact with the Windows registry   However  the JRE does in certain instances   Link  http   www rgagnon com javadetails java-0604 html

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http   androidhost org D8wsv  You can get jre-7u75-windows-i586 zip from the link above

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JDK s can be downloaded from here as zip file nor  exe http   installbuilder bitrock com java

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There is a  tar gz file of the Java Runtime Environment  JRE  on the Oracle website for these operations systems  Windows x86  Windows x64  Linux x86  Linux x64  Mac OS X x64   Solaris x64  See  http   www oracle com technetwork java javase downloads jre8-downloads-2133155 html  Also there is the Java Development Kit  JDK   http   www oracle com technetwork java javase downloads jdk8-downloads-2133151 html  The Windows  tar gz  is missing  but you can just extract the  exe file with a tool like 7zip   I found this is very useful to make Eclipse portable   -

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I did copy the JRE folder several times and it always works fine  But I am really not sure if you can just get a zip file with its contents  as the official installation install the plugins for IE  Firefox and whatsoever

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This is how I do it    Start with the exe installation and wait for the below screen     Go to the C  Program Files  x86  Java and copy your JDK to another place   Cancel the installation by clicking  x  and uninstall JDK   Copy the copied JDK back into C  Program Files  x86  Java or other folder of your choice

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For JDK 8u102 things have changed  this worked for me    Download windows JDK exe Open with 7-Zip Dump contents into a directory  JDK-EXE  cmd  cd  JDK-EXE  rsrc 1033 JAVA CAB10 cmd  extrac32 111 Now have a tools zip in directory  open it in 7-Zip Extract contents into a new directory  JDK-VERSION  cmd  cd  JDK-VERSION  cmd  for  r  x in    pack  do   bin unpack200 -r   x     dx  px  nx jar  src zip is in  JDK-EXE  rsrc 1033 JAVA CAB9 110   - put a copy into  JDK-VERSION    Now you are ready to go  You might want to setup JAVA HOME and PATH to point to your  JDK-VERSION  dir and its BIN subdir

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Download JAVA SE with JDK   Download jdk from Oracle website  http   www oracle com technetwork java javase downloads index html Unzip the exe  For example  jdk-8u5-windows-x64 exe Unzip the following file  tools zip  found under the unzipped folder  to the desired JAVA HOME  Update the JAVA HOME environment variable to point to your desired path    Tested for version  jdk-7u60-windows-x64 exe  jdk-7u60-windows-x64 exe  Download JAVA EE with JDK   Download jdk from Oracle website  http   www oracle com technetwork java javaee downloads index html Unzip the exe  For example  jdk-7u55-windows-x64 exe Unzip the following file  Product Packages jdk zip  found under the unzipped folder  to the desired JAVA HOME  Update the JAVA HOME environment variable to point to your desired path    Tested for version  jdk-7u55-windows-x64 exe

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I discovered you can run the installer in Wine  This works   WINEPREFIX  home jason java wine jre-7u11-windows-i586 exe  Then once it is finished you can just zip up the  home jason java drive c Program  Files    x86   Java jre7   This should work for jdk as well

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I installed JDK 8 with the exe installer and then uninstalled JRE  I now have JDK folder with no env variable or other setting changed

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