I tried 7zip but it didn't extract the cab properly. You need the cabextract program to extract the installer files. Here are all the steps that got the JDK installed on Windows 7 without admin rights. pack files and unpacks them in the right folders.

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This allows you to run java programs however I still had trouble with Eclipse as there was some issue with annotations, so there's probably another step that is missing. pack extension and unpack them using unpack200, eg. Just go through each directory looking for files with a. Many of the jar files (eg rt.jar) are compressed so they need to be decompressed using unpack200. If it works it will be much faster.Įdit: This doesn't get you a working JDK with the latest versions of jdk 6 and 7. Hint: Try to subsitite 7zip instead of cabextract and cygwin. Move tools.zip to a new directory and unzip it using cygwin or windows explorer. This will extract all the files into the current directory. Type cabextract jdk1.6.exe <- jdk file name In the utils make sure you select cabextract.exe to install it. For this you need cygwin installed which does not require admin privileges.

Here is a workaround to install java without admin privileges or without administrator password.

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