How to Install JAVA 8 (JDK 8u151) on Ubuntu 17.10/16.04, LinuxMint 18/17

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Java is the widely used programming language used by billion of application. Generally, every system required Java installed there. You may also need to Install Oracle Java 8 on your Linux system. You will require the PPA maintained by Webupd8 Team to Install Java 8 on Your Ubuntu and LinuxMint system.

Use this tutorial to install Oracle Java 8 (JDK 8u151) on Ubuntu 17.10, 17.04, 16.04, 14.04 and 12.04 LTS and LinuxMint 18, 17 systems using PPA.

Step 1 – Install JAVA 8

First of all, you need to add webupd8team Java PPA repository in your system. After that install, Oracle Java 8 using following a set of commands.

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

Step 2 – Verify Installed Java Version

After successfully installing Oracle Java using above step verify installed version using the following command.

java -version 

java version "1.8.0_151"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_151-b12)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.151-b12, mixed mode)

Step 3 – Setup Java Environment

Also, install Java configuration package. It seems like below package is already installed with latest operating systems during installation of JAVA packages. But you can still make sure by running below command.

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

Now add the JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME environment variable in /etc/environment configuration file using following command.

cat >> /etc/environment <<EOL
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre
EOL

Finally, You have successfully installed Java 8 on your system. In addition if you are looking for Google chrome installation visit Install Google Chrome on Ubuntu & LinuxMint

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140 Comments

  1. Jari Reply to Jari
    September 19, 2017 at 4:47 pm

    step 1 Can do add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java && apt-get update && apt-get install oracle-java8-installer allso little bit easy 🙂

  2. BK Reply to BK
    August 12, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    hi,
    there is an error with python-samba while installing oracle-java8-installer.
    [/var/cache/apt/archives/python-samba_2%3a4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.9_i386.deb
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)]
    how can i solve this problem?

  3. tullio Reply to tullio
    July 26, 2017 at 7:04 pm

    i’m not being able to edit the etc/environment file!!!
    please help?!

    • Icthyo Reply to Icthyo
      August 3, 2017 at 2:23 am

      Hello:

      You you either open ‘Files’ or ‘nautilus’ with root privileges, you will be able to open the etc/environment file, edit it and save afterward.

    • Armando Reply to Armando
      September 6, 2017 at 6:56 pm

      the easiest way is to do it through the terminal using sudo for root access (which enables you to edit sensitive files)
      $ sudo gedit /etc/environment
      add the lines
      then save.
      done.

  4. Tim Cooper Reply to Tim
    December 28, 2016 at 8:20 pm

    This seems to install JRE _not_ JDK as the title of the article states.
    Several people have pointed this out in the comments yet these queries remain unanswered.
    Perhaps the title of the article is incorrect…

  5. Jeff Reply to Jeff
    October 28, 2016 at 4:35 pm

    Thank you! This works Great! I was also able to integrate Apache Solr on my website

    I am thinking about keeping this up and going on my vps server

  6. meya Reply to meya
    August 12, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    Hello, i f i understand this will install JDK too. But i cant find my JDK directory.
    any help or explanation ? thank you in advance

  7. JeanAlesi Reply to JeanAlesi
    August 11, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    I don’t like it.. It’s too easy.
    Do you have a harder example?

  8. vikas avnish Reply to vikas
    August 7, 2016 at 7:18 pm

    This is simple and extremely easy explanation

  9. tiago Reply to tiago
    August 7, 2016 at 2:53 am

    I want know becouse we make donwload of archive on site of oracle and that file i dont can install

  10. Nikolaj Reply to Nikolaj
    August 4, 2016 at 11:31 am

    1-up!!! Thanks! you saved my day 🙂

  11. Samuele Soraggi Reply to Samuele
    July 29, 2016 at 10:15 pm

    Thanks for your suggestions, this solution is fast and understandable. i owe you one 😀

  12. Gustavo Chavarro Ortiz Reply to Gustavo
    July 21, 2016 at 3:29 am

    that is the best guide of the INTERNET, thanks man.

  13. Pavel Reply to Pavel
    July 16, 2016 at 4:23 am

    Thank you maaaan!

  14. john Reply to john
    July 14, 2016 at 9:54 pm

    I’ve installed java 1.8 on two devices thanks to this beautiful simple process

  15. Barry Reply to Barry
    July 10, 2016 at 4:22 pm

    🙂 you da man thanks!

  16. Chukwuemeka Reply to Chukwuemeka
    July 9, 2016 at 7:00 pm

    Great guide.
    Thanks!

  17. Manjunath Reply to Manjunath
    July 5, 2016 at 11:26 am

    If you get “Cannot add PPA ‘ppa:cooperjona/lightread’ . Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.” error

    sudo -E add-apt-repository ppa:ppaname/ppa
    instead of

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ppaname/ppa

  18. xiaoguang Reply to xiaoguang
    July 1, 2016 at 12:57 pm

    thanks

  19. Cristian Leal Reply to Cristian
    June 26, 2016 at 4:43 pm

    Genio, muchas gracias. Saludos desde Argentina!

  20. il0v3tweakS Reply to il0v3tweakS
    June 23, 2016 at 7:00 pm

    This saved my day! Thank you!

  21. Fredah Reply to Fredah
    June 20, 2016 at 3:13 pm

    This saved me a whole day of manually doing it myself. Thanks so much!!

  22. Melinda Reply to Melinda
    May 25, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    Great step-by-step process document!! Thanks.

  23. brucewayne Reply to brucewayne
    May 7, 2016 at 2:57 pm

    thanks!

  24. Luis Felipe Reply to Luis
    May 3, 2016 at 5:21 pm

    Thanks a lot! You all helped me a lot!

  25. deva Reply to deva
    May 3, 2016 at 10:30 am

    nice documentation

  26. sue Reply to sue
    April 30, 2016 at 10:43 pm

    i already had java7. after installing java8, java- -version still gives jdk7… whats the solution?

  27. Z06R8CR Reply to Z06R8CR
    April 29, 2016 at 9:42 pm

    Thanks for the great instructions!

  28. Jonatas Reply to Jonatas
    April 29, 2016 at 3:18 pm

    Thank you !

  29. Benedito Sene Reply to Benedito
    April 28, 2016 at 11:07 pm

    Thank you very much !!

  30. prathinma Reply to prathinma
    April 19, 2016 at 5:37 am

    Thank You so much

  31. Max Reply to Max
    April 17, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    Thank bro none of the site help out on google but u r site instruction was extremely perfect….

  32. Mrunal Reply to Mrunal
    April 13, 2016 at 10:34 am

    This article was extremely helpful. Please keep posting Linux and Java related articles.

  33. Gustavo Zaera Holo Reply to Gustavo
    March 12, 2016 at 8:18 pm

    Thanks for a simple and great HOWTO! 🙂

  34. srinidhi Reply to srinidhi
    February 25, 2016 at 7:28 am

    hi guys i am getting this error)
    (http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u72-b15/jdk-8u72-linux-i586.tar.gz
    Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|180.149.61.152|:80… connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response… Read error (Connection reset by peer) in headers.
    Retrying.)
    upto try:5 after that download fail NOT inst error please help

    • tohuuu Reply to tohuuu
      March 30, 2016 at 9:43 am

      Encountered the same issue – i had to modify the timeout settings in /var/lib/dpkg/info/oracle-java8-installer.postinst to make it run. Sadly, the installer script doesn’t use the system-wide /etc/wgetrc but creates its own wgetrc each time it runs. So, you’ll have to search for the line “echo “timeout = 15″ >> wgetrc” in the postinst file i’ve mentioned above. Now, just set a longer timeout or remove the line completely.

  35. shravan Reply to shravan
    February 22, 2016 at 3:37 am

    Thank you very much

  36. ubBa Reply to ubBa
    February 16, 2016 at 6:19 pm

    It is not working for me.

  37. Eduardo Reply to Eduardo
    February 14, 2016 at 1:37 pm

    Thanks man. It works perfectly.

  38. Luis Reply to Luis
    February 4, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    Muy útil, muchas gracias.

  39. Jaswant Reply to Jaswant
    January 26, 2016 at 2:54 pm

    Very useful tutorial…

  40. Aradhya Sen Reply to Aradhya
    January 26, 2016 at 2:35 pm

    Thank you

  41. Manurmu Reply to Manurmu
    January 26, 2016 at 5:07 am

    hey!!! so usefull!!!! thank a lot!!!!! 😀

  42. Michael Reply to Michael
    January 26, 2016 at 4:34 am

    Thanks dude searched everywhere for guides but yours is the best and easiest.

  43. PRESIDENT Reply to PRESIDENT
    January 24, 2016 at 8:55 am

    Thank you 😉

  44. Ananda Bayu Reply to Ananda
    January 7, 2016 at 10:24 am

    Hey, i’am new with linux and its very usefull thanks for the tutorial.

  45. Tanja Reply to Tanja
    January 5, 2016 at 5:43 pm

    Thank you very much for this. It helped a lot!

  46. Ian Reply to Ian
    December 30, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    I’m getting an error when running the command:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

    The error is:
    Cannot add PPA: ‘ppa:~webupd8team/ubuntu/java’.
    ERROR: ‘~webupd8team’ user or team does not exist.

  47. lanowar Reply to lanowar
    December 26, 2015 at 5:55 pm

    Thanks but it’s not working for me, this is the message i got:

    ~ $ sudo apt-get update
    E: Type ‘sudo’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-xamarin.list
    E: The list of sources could not be read.

  48. nicolas Reply to nicolas
    December 14, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    Very nice, simple and useful

  49. Allen Burns Reply to Allen
    December 9, 2015 at 7:52 pm

    Sure wish this wasn’t the first item coming up in a google search of “installing java 8 jdk on ubuntu” because this isn’t the jdk!

  50. IZVITE Reply to IZVITE
    December 7, 2015 at 10:19 am

    Thanks a lot!

  51. Zacknov Reply to Zacknov
    December 5, 2015 at 2:24 pm

    Nice article. So the reference in my blog yes

  52. Bharath Reply to Bharath
    November 25, 2015 at 10:19 am

    Thanks a lot

  53. java Reply to java
    November 21, 2015 at 12:24 pm

    thanks

  54. Pracaonline Reply to Pracaonline
    November 14, 2015 at 12:09 am

    Thanks for that short advice, for now everything is working 😉 and let it stay in this way 😉

  55. qwerty Reply to qwerty
    October 29, 2015 at 9:45 am

    Thank you!

  56. kevin Reply to kevin
    October 28, 2015 at 2:27 am

    thank, ..thank you very much, very nice work

  57. Miguel Reply to Miguel
    October 25, 2015 at 12:09 am

    Very Nice, thanks!

  58. yogesh Reply to yogesh
    October 22, 2015 at 5:04 pm

    you follow this post and enjoy java8. very nice work done by techadmin.

  59. Gabriel Reply to Gabriel
    October 19, 2015 at 5:40 am

    Thanks dude ° this information was util.

  60. Gaspar Reply to Gaspar
    October 13, 2015 at 12:14 pm

    Good job!

  61. Zvonimir Reply to Zvonimir
    October 12, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    Does not work trows class not found exception

  62. Yogendra Reply to Yogendra
    October 6, 2015 at 2:14 am

    everything went in a breeze – cool
    thanks
    looking for manual procedure to do stepbystep as well

  63. Mohammad Dashti Reply to Mohammad
    September 30, 2015 at 4:17 pm

    Thanks a lot.
    Very helpful.

  64. Steve Reply to Steve
    September 30, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    Thanks man!! Worked like a champ!

  65. Elvir Reply to Elvir
    September 16, 2015 at 2:10 am

    Muito obrigado amigo.

  66. bdnahomi Reply to bdnahomi
    August 31, 2015 at 1:06 am

    Thank you very useful

  67. Sergio Reply to Sergio
    August 25, 2015 at 12:22 am

    Thanks

  68. Gurbachan Singh Reply to Gurbachan
    August 21, 2015 at 1:37 pm

    While installing throw sha256sum mismatch jdk-8u60-linux-x64.tar.gz

    please help me to out this problem

  69. Vinit Reply to Vinit
    August 20, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    Thank you so much……Really really helped alot….. 🙂

  70. David G. Pickett Reply to David
    August 18, 2015 at 9:49 pm

    Is there a way to get it to move up from 51 to 60? The website says I am behind!

  71. nelson molina Reply to nelson
    August 18, 2015 at 12:46 am

    Thanks very thamkful!!

  72. Yura Reply to Yura
    August 7, 2015 at 9:12 pm

    Really helpful information.

  73. Bala Reply to Bala
    August 5, 2015 at 2:07 pm

    Good One!

  74. Leenie Reply to Leenie
    August 2, 2015 at 2:49 pm

    Webupd8 Java PPA DOWN!!!!! When will it be updated?

    W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG C2518248EEA14886 Launchpad VLC

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/dists/trusty/Release

    W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

  75. sumit Reply to sumit
    July 22, 2015 at 2:59 pm

    thankyou somuch

  76. BPatient Reply to BPatient
    June 24, 2015 at 10:36 am

    Thank you sharing a such helpful article

  77. Aaron Reply to Aaron
    June 22, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    idk how to install this

  78. Harshita Reply to Harshita
    June 12, 2015 at 6:02 am

    Hi Rahul,
    I am new to Ubuntu. I tried the setps to install jdk 1.8.
    While setting environment, I found the error
    Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_45/lib/rt.pack
    jsse.jar…
    Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_45/lib/jsse.pack
    charsets.jar…
    Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_45/lib/charsets.pack
    localedata.jar…
    Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_45/lib/ext/localedata.pack
    jfxrt.jar…
    Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_45/lib/ext/jfxrt.pack
    plugin.jar…
    Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_45/lib/plugin.pack
    javaws.jar…
    Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_45/lib/javaws.pack
    deploy.jar…
    Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_45/lib/deploy.pack
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/jre1.8.0-45.postinst: line 641: /usr/sbin/alternatives: No such file or directory
    dpkg: error processing package jre1.8.0-45 (–configure):
    subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
    Setting up oracle-java8-set-default (8u45+8u33arm-1~webupd8~1) …
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    jre1.8.0-45
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

    What should I do to set environment ?

    • Zoli1972 Reply to Zoli1972
      July 21, 2015 at 5:25 pm

      Same here, HARSHITA.

      Worse: I can’t install any package since I’ve tried to install this using this tutorial. Can someone help please?

      Zoli

      • Zoli1972 Reply to Zoli1972
        July 21, 2015 at 5:44 pm

        EDIT: Maybe a helpful hint, I did a…

        java -version

        …this shows me…

        java version “1.9.0-ea”
        Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.9.0-ea-b70)
        Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 1.9.0-ea-b70, mixed mode)

        So the error messages seem to come from an older installation, that I have to remove. But how?

        Zoli

  79. Sohan Reply to Sohan
    June 8, 2015 at 11:43 am

    Very helpful article.

  80. Sergio Reply to Sergio
    June 1, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    Very helpful,

    Thanks !!!

  81. Luigi Reply to Luigi
    May 27, 2015 at 4:29 pm

    Very helpful article. Thanks.

  82. Amit Reply to Amit
    May 26, 2015 at 11:09 pm

    Hi,

    I would like to thank you for helping the non techs like myself first. Could you help me with a problem I get? I am using LM 17.1 and trying to do the installation I get the Binary Code License Agreement display at mt terminal window. There is no way to click ok or accept those terms, failing which the installation aborts. Can you tell me a way around, or what am I doing wrong?

    Thanks
    Amit

  83. Os Reply to Os
    May 22, 2015 at 9:35 pm

    Thank you!! It works!.

  84. MARCELO Reply to MARCELO
    May 5, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    Thanks for the info! very helpful…

  85. reshma Reply to reshma
    May 4, 2015 at 10:46 am

    Thank you so much, this helped a lot !!!!

  86. Javild Reply to Javild
    April 24, 2015 at 6:35 pm

    Thanks from a spanish user!

  87. Rana Reply to Rana
    April 13, 2015 at 5:48 am

    Thanks! It helped a lot!

  88. habdul Reply to habdul
    April 10, 2015 at 6:46 pm

    if i search, do i have java?, and enter site is says this plugin is not accepted,what i have to do?

  89. NoSyu Reply to NoSyu
    January 6, 2015 at 7:02 am

    Thank you for kind article to install java 1.8 in Ubuntu 14.04.
    It works well. 🙂

  90. Abdul Hannan Reply to Abdul
    January 4, 2015 at 4:51 pm

    Will it work for Ubuntu 14.10?

  91. Jim Somerville Reply to Jim
    December 28, 2014 at 12:51 am

    This is very handy, thank you. And thank you to the Webupd8 Team!

  92. carlos Reply to carlos
    December 22, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    thank you, greetings from México.

  93. Satya Prakash Joshi Reply to Satya
    December 17, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    You made my day,, thanks allot

  94. Zoltan Reply to Zoltan
    December 13, 2014 at 6:21 pm

    Hi,
    I could install java 8 as you wrote, but I still can not set java 8 as a default JRE. And when I would like to add it to the installed JREs I cant find it. Where should it be?
    Thank you!

  95. tendertree Reply to tendertree
    December 3, 2014 at 11:53 am

    thanks for post !! it was very helpful for me !

  96. Avinash Reply to Avinash
    November 30, 2014 at 10:55 am

    Thanks for the guide.. worked fine for me

  97. Nerunja Reply to Nerunja
    November 29, 2014 at 3:18 am

    Thank you very much. This is really helpful.

  98. Kevin Reply to Kevin
    November 26, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    Awesome! very helpful!

  99. Tiru Reply to Tiru
    November 23, 2014 at 6:06 pm

    Very useful. Thank you.

  100. Davi Lima Reply to Davi
    November 17, 2014 at 7:57 pm

    Very Easy for install Java in Ubuntu 🙂
    Nice Job

  101. Marcio Reply to Marcio
    November 11, 2014 at 3:57 pm

    great! i always wonder why we haven’t something like a repo to install jdk!

    great work

  102. Erwin Reply to Erwin
    November 10, 2014 at 11:58 am

    Thanks a lot. Quick, easy and it installs both JDK and JRE version 8!

  103. Divine Martins Jr. Reply to Divine
    November 1, 2014 at 1:39 pm

    Wonderful and helpful.
    A written tutorial on how to install using the already downloaded tar.gz file will be helpful too. Thanks

  104. Ruben Reply to Ruben
    October 29, 2014 at 8:39 pm

    This installs the JRE not the JDK/SDK. Is not the same ….

  105. Victor Reply to Victor
    October 28, 2014 at 4:17 pm

    Nice tutorial!
    But now, How do you uninstall it?

  106. Telepath Reply to Telepath
    October 24, 2014 at 9:34 pm

    Hi, whish all of costum installs have these very good install help,
    saves lots of time , thx,

  107. PK Reply to PK
    October 21, 2014 at 12:24 am

    Hi,

    I am getting an error stating the following. Please help.

    Cannot add PPA: ‘ppa:webupd8team/java’.
    Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.

  108. Jeroen Reply to Jeroen
    October 6, 2014 at 9:09 pm

    Thanks man, saved me some time 🙂

  109. ceghap Reply to ceghap
    September 26, 2014 at 11:26 am

    thanks! 🙂

  110. BlastedChango Reply to BlastedChango
    September 22, 2014 at 8:19 pm

    Thank you very much, this helped a lot

  111. Alan Reply to Alan
    September 22, 2014 at 2:29 am

    Very good, help so much

  112. bigspawn Reply to bigspawn
    September 20, 2014 at 1:12 pm

    Thank’s for this article!

  113. Elias Reply to Elias
    September 18, 2014 at 6:35 pm

    Thanks! Very helpful.

  114. mike Reply to mike
    September 13, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    you guys rock

  115. Dery Reply to Dery
    September 12, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    Thank you so much!

  116. Victor Reply to Victor
    September 8, 2014 at 6:51 pm

    Thank you!

  117. eyescream Reply to eyescream
    August 31, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    thank you very very much

  118. juju Reply to juju
    August 23, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    Missing the – in java -version

  119. magma Reply to magma
    August 22, 2014 at 6:40 pm

    many thanks, this helped a lot!

  120. pedro Reply to pedro
    July 25, 2014 at 2:51 am

    Thanks!
    I can´t access my bank with open-jdk, only with oracle-java

  121. Madhu Reply to Madhu
    July 22, 2014 at 7:45 am

    Useful Information, Thanks

  122. Nestor Octavio Reply to Nestor
    July 9, 2014 at 4:11 pm

    Nice tutorial
    Greetings from Mexico Wey!! :3

  123. arxos Reply to arxos
    June 24, 2014 at 6:32 am

    Thanks!!!! God Thanks!!!!

  124. wei-ting Reply to wei-ting
    June 1, 2014 at 8:58 pm

    Hi, these information is very useful. Thank you very much.

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