Sun Java JRE

What works

• Java control panel
• Java applications on Wine

What does not

• Installer crashes after clicking "Next" (has workaround)
• Java commands are not added to CMD (has workaround)

Workarounds

Installer crashes after clicking "Next"

Open winecfg and select Windows version to "Windows XP"

You have to do this, or else installation will be incomplete

use this command to install Java and wait it to complete:

wine jre-8uXXX-windows-x64.exe /s

Where "jre-8uXXX-windows-x64.exe" is the location and name of the Java installation file

Java commands are not added to CMD

1. Open regedit

wine regedit

2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment

3. Create a new "multiple word value" key named "JAVA_HOME" with the value "C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_XXX" (where XXX is the Java version you installed in)

NOTE: You can add both 32-Bits and 64-Bit version of Java alongside each other on the key

4. Modify "PATH" key and add to the key: ";%JAVA_HOME%\bin"

WARNING: DO NOT erase and replace it, add it to the key value instead. Eg: 

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32\wbem;%SystemRoot%\system32\WindowsPowershell\v1.0;%JAVA_HOME%\bin

5. (Optional) Check it by opening wine CMD and using:

echo %JAVA_HOME%

java -version

6. Close regedit :3

What was not tested

• Java update
• rmiregistry and many other Java tools
• Java JDK 8
• Java web framework
• Java SE is a huge platform, many and many Java applets were not tested

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Intel
• Driver: open source

Additional Comments

You may need to repeat workaround #2 manually everytime you update Java (change only JAVA_HOME path value)

jre1.8.0_311 was tested on this report