Openfire issues with OpenJDK 11

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Hi all, I’ve searched, but haven’t really been able to find anything that helps. I’m having issues installing Openfire 4.8.1 with OpenJDK 11.0.22 installed on rhel 8. When I try to install it, I’m getting a failed dependency error stating that Java>= 1:11.0.0 is needed. Does Openfire support OpenJDK?

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Same issue with AlmaLinux 8 (as you’d expect).

OpenJDK JRE 11 is installed and on the path, but I’m getting the same failed dependency error.

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Looks like there’s a mismatch between the “provides” from the OpenJDK packages (ie. java-nn) and what the OpenFire RPM is looking for (ie. java). Since multiple JREs can be installed simultaneously, looks like the OpenJDK Java 8 package is the only one providing bare “java”.

I was able to install the RPM by adding “–nodeps”.

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@nlindq Aha! Looks like that worked for me as well. I also had to add on --nodigest as well since I was getting a “does not verify: no digest error” once I added the “–nodeps” flag. I appreciate the help!

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I installed Openfire 4.8.3 rpm about a week ago on Rocky Linux 8 using the “–nodeps” option. (Java 11 is installed and set as the default.) That worked, but now, when I try to update the system using “dnf update”, it’s blocked by the unsatisfied dependency:
Running transaction check
Error: transaction check vs depsolve:
java >= 1:11.0.0 is needed by (installed) openfire-4.8.3-1.noarch

Not only will it not update java 8, it won’t let me remove it. Nothing else on this server needs java 8. How can I fix this?

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Which java RPMs do you have installed? For me, having java-11-openjdk and java-11-openjdk-headless make things happy.

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I have:
java-11-openjdk-devel-11.0.24.0.8-3.el8.x86_64
java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.412.b08-2.el8.x86_64
java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.412.b08-2.el8.x86_64
java-11-openjdk-headless-11.0.24.0.8-3.el8.x86_64
java-11-openjdk-11.0.24.0.8-3.el8.x86_64

Openfire is happy. dnf is not when I run dnf update, or try dnf remove java-1.8.0-openjdk.

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I am unsure what is the proper way to fix this, but if I was you and did not need those 1.8.0 rpms installed, I would rpm -e --nodeps those and see if things are then happy.

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Thanks for that suggestion. I didn’t consider removing with rpm since I installed with dnf. Seems to have worked and dnf update is now happy too.