diff --git a/files/debs/general b/files/debs/general
index a1f2a4b159..c121770fa2 100644
--- a/files/debs/general
+++ b/files/debs/general
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ bc
bridge-utils
bsdmainutils
curl
+default-jre-headless # NOPRIME
g++
gcc
gettext # used for compiling message catalogs
@@ -17,7 +18,6 @@ libxml2-dev # lxml
libxslt1-dev # lxml
libyaml-dev
lsof # useful when debugging
-openjdk-7-jre-headless # NOPRIME
openssh-server
openssl
pkg-config
diff --git a/pkg/elasticsearch.sh b/pkg/elasticsearch.sh
index 856eaff36f..fefd454312 100755
--- a/pkg/elasticsearch.sh
+++ b/pkg/elasticsearch.sh
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ function install_elasticsearch {
return
fi
if is_ubuntu; then
- is_package_installed openjdk-7-jre-headless || install_package openjdk-7-jre-headless
+ is_package_installed default-jre-headless || install_package default-jre-headless
sudo dpkg -i ${FILES}/elasticsearch-${ELASTICSEARCH_VERSION}.deb
sudo update-rc.d elasticsearch defaults 95 10