How to Install JAVA 8 (JDK/JRE 8u131) on Debian 8 & 7 via PPA

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Install Java 8 on Debian 8 And 7. The first Oracle Java 8 stable version was released on Mar 18, 2014 and available to download and install. Oracle Java PPA for Debian systems is being maintained by Webupd8 Team. JAVA 8 is released with many of new features and security updates. Ubuntu and LinuxMint users use below link to install Java 8 on their system.

This article will help you to Upgrade/Install Java 8 on Debian 8/7 system using PPA or Apt-Get command line package manager.

1. Add Java 8 PPA

First, you need to add webupd8team Java PPA repository in your system. Edit a new PPA file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/java-8-debian.list in text editor

$ sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/java-8-debian.list

and add following content in it.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty main

Now import GPG key on your system for validating packages before installing them.

$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EEA14886

2. Install Java 8 on Debian

Now use the following commands to update apt cache and then install Java 8 on your Debian system.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

3. Verify Java Version

Finally, you have successfully installed Oracle Java on your Debian system. Let’s use the following command to verify installed version of Java on your system.

[email protected]:~$ java -version

java version "1.8.0_131"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-b11)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)

4. Configure Java Environment

In Webupd8 PPA repository also providing a package to set environment variables, Install this package using the following command.

$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default

References:
https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/java

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13 Comments

  1. agalgo Reply to agalgo
    June 14, 2017 at 1:13 am

    So far so good. Thanks.

  2. cesar Reply to cesar
    May 31, 2017 at 2:36 am

    Excelent!! Thank

  3. Premalatha Reply to Premalatha
    April 11, 2017 at 6:54 am

    Good!!!., Simple and clean

  4. yuri Reply to yuri
    February 27, 2017 at 9:53 pm

    not work can you help me?
    [email protected]:/usr/bin# sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
    Lettura elenco dei pacchetti… Fatto
    Generazione albero delle dipendenze
    Lettura informazioni sullo stato… Fatto
    oracle-java8-installer è già alla versione più recente.
    0 aggiornati, 0 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.
    3 non completamente installati o rimossi.
    Dopo quest’operazione, verranno occupati 0 B di spazio su disco.
    Continuare? [S/n] s
    Configurazione di java-common (0.52)…
    mkdir: impossibile creare la directory “/etc/.java/.systemPrefs”: File già esistente
    dpkg: errore nell’elaborare il pacchetto java-common (–configure):
    il sottoprocesso installato script di post-installation ha restituito lo stato di errore 1
    dpkg: problemi con le dipendenze impediscono la configurazione di oracle-java8-installer:
    oracle-java8-installer dipende da java-common (>= 0.24); comunque:
    Il pacchetto java-common non è ancora configurato.

    dpkg: errore nell’elaborare il pacchetto oracle-java8-installer (–configure):
    problemi con le dipendenze – lasciato non configurato
    Configurazione di jdk1.8.0-121 (1.8.0121-1)…
    Error: unpack200 – command could not be found.

    Please refer to the Troubleshooting section of theInstallation Instructions
    on the download page.
    find: “/usr/java/*”: File o directory non esistente
    update-alternatives: errore: il percorso alternativo /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_121/jre/bin/java non esiste
    update-alternatives: errore: il percorso alternativo /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_121/bin/javac non esiste
    dpkg: errore nell’elaborare il pacchetto jdk1.8.0-121 (–configure):
    il sottoprocesso installato script di post-installation ha restituito lo stato di errore 2
    Si sono verificati degli errori nell’elaborazione:
    java-common
    oracle-java8-installer
    jdk1.8.0-121
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  5. Kamal Reply to Kamal
    February 22, 2017 at 12:26 pm

    thanks from germany

  6. Artem Reply to Artem
    February 6, 2017 at 6:07 pm

    Thanks a lot! You save my time!

  7. cristianzamar Reply to cristianzamar
    September 2, 2016 at 4:53 pm

    Thank you very much!! Every step worked perfectly.. I used nano instead of vim.

  8. Ryan Cooper Reply to Ryan
    July 18, 2016 at 8:58 pm

    And I just want to use it to play minecraft… so thank you very much!

  9. Grayson Reply to Grayson
    June 6, 2016 at 6:11 pm

    Thank you very much for this clear explanation. This was very helpful.

  10. gabriel Reply to gabriel
    May 6, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    thank you, install went smooth on Debian 7.8

  11. Anand Raj Reply to Anand
    April 6, 2016 at 4:40 pm

    Thanks you so much…

  12. Eli663 Reply to Eli663
    April 4, 2016 at 3:21 am

    Instead of vim you could use gedit if you computer does not have vim command.

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