How to install JDK8 on Ubuntu 16?

software-installation java jdk openjdk

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Solution 1

Usually you install the openjdk like this:

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk

Maybe this is the problem. You can look this up at http://openjdk.java.net/install/index.html. If you do this you might have fixed this problem. But cant imagine why your command give this result.

Solution 2

I installed oracle-jdk8. If you need,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java && sudo apt update
sudo apt install oracle-java8-installer

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Comments

Old Geezer over 1 year
I needed JDK 8 for Bazel. I ran sudo apt-get install openjdk-8* on a freshly built Ubuntu 16.04.02 machine, but after installation update-alternatives --config java show two paths:
```
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java
```
I purged opensdk-8* and then installed apt-get openjdk-9* but the outcome was the same.

How do I get JDK 8?
Old Geezer almost 7 years

I did this but I got E: Unable to locate package openjdk-8-jdk.
Pilot6 almost 7 years

Run sudo apt update first. You need to be connected to the internet.