How to Install Java 8 on Debian 10/9/8 via PPA

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    How do I Install Java 8 on Debian?. 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. This tutorial will help you to Install Java 8 on Debian 9/8/7 systems using PPA and apt-get command.

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    Step 1 – Add Java 8 PPA

    The webupd8 team has built a Java installer package for Debian systems. You need to add that PPA repository to your system for installing Java 8 on Debian.

    Create a new Apt configuration file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/java-8-debian.list, and edit 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

    Step 2 – Install Java 8 on Debian

    You are all set to start Java installation on Debian. Run the following commands to update apt-cache and then install Java 8 on Debian system using the apt-get package manager.

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

    The installer will prompt for accept Oracle terms in order to continue Java installation on Debian. Accept the terms and complete setup.

    Step 3 – Verify Java Installation

    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.

    java -version

java version "1.8.0_201"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_201-b09)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.201-b09, mixed mode)

    Step 4 – Setup Java Environment

    The Webupd8 PPA repository also provides 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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    2. Ben on

      umm…

      W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty InRelease: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY C2518248EEA14886
      E: The repository ‘http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty InRelease’ is not signed.
      N: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

      I did exactly as you said and looks like it isn’t much use?…

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    3. Leutech on

      For all other guys wo see this. If you have debian 8/9/10. On Debian 8 and 9 you can run “apt install openjdk-8-jdk” and for Debian 10 (Buster), if you want the java 8 version add this in the sources.list file in /etc/apt:

      deb “http://ftp.debian.org/debian” stretch main
      deb-src ” http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian” stretch main

      after you add these 2 lines in the sources.list file you have to update with “apt update” and after that you can run “apt install openjdk-8-jdk”. After the installation of java i recommended to delete the 2 lines from the source.list file and update again and now all would be fine

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      • amanwithnoplan on

        THANK YOU, I was working at this for like 5 HOURS, it took me so long to realize it was Debian 10 and not 9 but if I didn’t see this I would’ve given up THANK YOU!

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    6. Tom on

      Under my current OS release, the command to update the key store is

      sudo apt-key adv –keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 –recv-keys EEA14886

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    8. Slappy on

      I am running Raspian Stretch Lite and when I attempt to hit the import of the key it fails with:

      “[email protected]:~ $ sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys EEA14886
      Executing: /tmp/apt-key-gpghome.l6hy3eHIwG/gpg.1.sh –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys EEA14886
      gpg: failed to start the dirmngr ‘/usr/bin/dirmngr’: No such file or directory
      gpg: connecting dirmngr at ‘/tmp/apt-key-gpghome.l6hy3eHIwG/S.dirmngr’ failed: No such file or directory
      gpg: keyserver receive failed: No dirmngr”

      I also tried instead doing the Java 9 and it fails at the key import as well. What am I doing wrong?

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    15. yuri on

      not work can you help me?
      r[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)

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