Is the cacerts file missing in ubuntu 15.10 and openjdk-8-jdk?

java, java-8, jsse, ubuntu, ubuntu-15.10

Solution

This is due to a bug already reported here: Ubuntu bug ticket

The ticket above links another similar issue, which provides a workaround:

$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends ca-certificates-java
$ sudo apt-get install ca-certificates-java

Problem

I just installed Ubuntu 15.10 and their openjdk-8-jdk (by apt-get). Now I am missing the cacerts file. There is a link at the usual location: ``` ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/security/cacerts lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Oct 22 01:47 /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/security/cacerts -> /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts ``` but nothing at /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts: ``` stat /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts stat: cannot stat ‘/etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts’: No such file or directory ```

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