@Ran_Dahl, I recommend to install either Oracle JRE8 from the TAR file on the Oracle website or give OpenJDK8 a try.

I prefer to use Oracle JRE8. Unfortunately, the Debian jsvc package seem to have an (unneeded) dependency to OpenJDK.

Thus, I did download the source of jsvc, compiled it as a stand-alone utility (it has no dependencies which are unmet by Omada SDN Controller already). As for mongodb v3.x I read somewhere that it should be available (again) in the repositories since Debian Buster.

Given all this, Debian has lost me. I did replace Debian by Devuan ASCII (https://devuan.org/) which is a fork of Debain and provides mongodb v3.2.11 in its repos.

BTW, you might want to try the community version of Omada SDN Controller found here. It allows parallel installation of different versions of Omada Controller (e.g. 3.2.10 and 4.1.5), comes with a comfortable management utility omadactl and fixes two bugs with wrong pathnames in the properties files still present in the official version.

@Ran_Dahl, the point with Debian is that they stopped supporting Oracle JRE/JDK at some point in the past. Also, mongodb wasn't updated anymore and stayed at v2 until latest stable version of Debian which finally did update the mongodb package to v3.

Anyway, as I did write in the SDN controller thread: several Debian core team members left the project due to the direction the project takes. They now work on the Devuan project which continues what Debian used to be. I as an user of Debian for decades finally followed them after bad experiences with systemd such as a sudden, unexpected shutdown of our Internet server caused by systemd for no good reason.

That's not what Debian did stand for over decades. It seems they have other priorities now.

The decision to replace Debian by Devuan is not just based on being able to run SDN Controller. It affects daily work, too. I'm not willing to spent time as an unsolicited beta-tester for systemd and compilations of jsvc source code b/c of weird dependencies with OpenJDK in the jsvc package (not in the jsvc source code, tehre it just depends on some JDK include files found in any JDK!).

Regarding jsvc: I did introduce Privilege Spearation in controller version v2.6 with the start-stop-daemon utility available on every Linux which uses dpkg. Unfortunately, TP-Link R&D decided to rather use jsvc introduced in controller version v3.0 for reasons unknown to me.

I still have the hope to finally convince R&D to use start-stop-daemon to get rid of jsvc.