NOTE: This covers copying a package from a server where you already have the desired version available. OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode) Then the others can be added (not sure if they're needed, but it worked for me): dpkg -i openjdk-8-jre_8u131-b11-2ubuntu1.16.04.3_bĪfter running all this, java -version gives me the expected output for the desired version: openjdk version '1.8.0_131' The headless package and certificates had to be installed together (dependency issue separately). The older version could then be installed using (adjust filenames as needed): dpkg -i openjdk-8-jre-headless_8u131-b11-2ubuntu1.16.04.3_b ca-certificates-java_20160321_all.deb On the target server I removed the default-jre package, java-common, and ca-certificates-java packages using apt-get remove to clear out the more recent version.

deb file of the OpenJDK packages needed to install it 'offline' on another server as follows: apt-get install dpkg-repack So, for the second half of my question about copying a package from one install to another, I was able to use the dpkg-repack package to generate a.

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