OpenJDK: JDK on headless machine, no X, no GNOME etc.

[Ivan Krylov]

You might be ok with simply downloading the tar.gz linux binary bundle for 7 or 8. 
If disk space is a concern then yes, compact profiles is the way to go (8 only).

Ivan

On 19 Jul 2014, at 01:03, allicoder <aredocilla at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a headless Debian machine (Wheezy), and I'd like to use it for
> some Android (ROM) development. This means I need Java on it, but the
> default packages (openjdk-7-jdk et al) pull in X and GNOME packages and
> lots of other things I don't need. openjdk-7-jre-headless isn't going to
> help because it won't have javac etc. Is there a way to install the JDK
> tools on this box without having to pull in all the graphical
> dependencies I won't need? I'm happy to rebuild OpenJDK if needed.
> 
> Best wishes,
> allicoder.
>