Matlab Alternative Ubuntu Stack – https://github.com/majyak/ubuntustack As an alternative to the stack, you can use the default stack for Ubuntu 14.10 by typing apt-get install stack.stack.ubuntu before installing the desktop extension. If you want to check out the install process of the distro, try to install it from these locations: /opt/ubuntu/repo You likely won’t need to root the subfolders, so you can run packages yourself and have them installed. Using Ubuntu Stack In some cases, you might need to install a remote repository for your live package repository, and use it as your central repository, at some point in time. To do this, use the following command from the distro’s local repository package manager: sudo chmod +x distro:root ${HOME}/.xenial-project/travis-bapkg/ After the steps above have been completed (use apt-get install build –no-install ), unpack distro:root by typing the following into it. sudo pip install distro:root Install from OpenJDK A more complicated way to install from OpenJDK is to go directly to the source code of the OpenJDK itself – by creating a copy of the “main.d” file in /opt/openjdk/src/modules/to/openjdk/core/ directory.