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Trouble downgrading to OpenJdk 7 on Debian 9



We need to run Tomcat7 on JRE7 on Debian 9.

The Debian Java FAQ doesn't explain how to do this at
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch3.en.html
nor at
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-java-faq/ch8.en.html

In particular, after " sudo apt-get update",  "update-java-alternatives --list" shows only:
java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64       1081       /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64

I also tried:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package openjdk-7-jre is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'openjdk-7-jre' has no installation candidate

How can I downgrade to OpenJDK 7?

FWIW: uname -a
Linux ip-10-0-0-225 4.9.0-7-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u1 (2018-08-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Cheers,
David

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