How to Install Java 8 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

By RahulApril 26, 20252 Mins Read

Optimize your Java development and runtime environment with this comprehensive guide on installing Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on Linux systems. Java developers need both JDK and JRE to craft and run Java applications and applets efficiently. JDK offers the essential tools for developing Java applications, including the Java compiler, while JRE provides a runtime environment necessary for Java applications.

How to Install Java on Ubuntu and Linux Mint

This guide simplifies the process of installing OpenJDK Java on popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint. OpenJDK, an open-source implementation of the Java Platform, Standard Edition, ensures your Java applications run securely and efficiently.

Installation Steps

Update Your Package Index

Begin by updating your package index to ensure you have access to the latest software versions. Execute the following command in your terminal:

sudo apt update

Install Java OpenJDK

Install OpenJDK 8 by running the following command. This command installs both the JDK and JRE, setting up your system for Java development and execution.

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jre

Verifying the Java Installation

After installing Java, verify the installation to ensure Java is correctly installed on your system. Run the following command to check the installed Java version:

java -version

This command will display the installed OpenJDK version, confirming the successful installation.

Setting Up JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME Environment Variables

To ensure Java applications can locate the Java libraries, it’s crucial to set the JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME environment variables. These variables point to the installation directories of JDK and JRE, respectively. You can set these environment variables in the /etc/environment file with the following commands:

cat >> /etc/environment <<EOL
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre
EOL

Conclusion

Successfully installing and configuring Java on your Linux system is a foundational step for any Java developer. By following the steps outlined in this guide, developers can efficiently prepare their Linux systems for Java development and application execution. This setup not only facilitates the creation of Java applications but also supports running Java-based software. Whether you’re developing new Java applications or running existing ones, having both JDK and JRE properly installed and configured ensures a robust development and execution environment for your Java projects.

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189 Comments

roshini on May 25, 2022 6:06 am
cat >> /etc/environment <<EOL
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre
EOL
USING THESE STEPS PERMISSION DENIED
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ginnnn on October 6, 2021 7:24 am
thanks
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Costin C-tin on July 21, 2020 6:02 am
As Benjamin Hecht (and others) pointed out “Permission denied” is raised when trying “cat >> /etc/environment <<EOL ” . Even with “sudo cat >> ” the same applies. To be able to write to /etc/environment this needs to be used:
cat | sudo tee -a /etc/environment <<EOL
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre
EOL
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- Kamsala Rajesh on September 27, 2020 5:19 pm
  How to upgrade or how to remove java-8 version and install java7 how to set environment variable, can anyone help me with my question?
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Benjamin Hecht on July 4, 2020 3:21 am
Hi, I’m getting ‘permission denied’ as an error:
(base) benjamin@benjamin-desktop:~$ java -version
openjdk version “1.8.0_252”
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_252-8u252-b09-1~18.04-b09)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.252-b09, mixed mode)
(base) benjamin@benjamin-desktop:~$ cat >> /etc/environment < JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
> JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre
> EOL
bash: /etc/environment: Permission denied
(base) benjamin@benjamin-desktop:~$ cat >> /etc/environment < JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
> JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre
> EOL
bash: /etc/environment: Permission denied
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! Trying to use java for loading a jnlp file so using Java 8 on 18.04.4 appears to be the only way.
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- Mattis on July 20, 2020 8:58 am
  Try: sudo nano /etc/environment (or use any other text editor)
  Then add the lines:
  JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
  JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre
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- sachin Kale on January 22, 2021 7:56 am
  add permission with below commonad
  sudo chmod -R ugo+rw /etc/environment
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Levent GUREN on May 27, 2020 10:37 pm
There is a space after equal sign at this line:
JAVA_HOME= /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
This must not be there. 🙂
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- Rahul on May 28, 2020 4:21 am
  Thanks Levent, Article has been updated.
  Reply
José on May 1, 2020 2:54 pm
thanks!
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Nicodemus Ojwee on March 3, 2020 2:50 pm
Thanks for the quick and clear guide.
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Marcus Siqueira on February 11, 2020 6:59 pm
Interesting stuff! Keep the site up you have a lot of good content! You just helped me and I believe you helped a lot more people
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sabung ayam s128 on February 5, 2020 7:04 pm
Good write-up. I certainly love this website. Thanks!
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pharaprince on January 24, 2020 1:42 am
Thanks it worked for me
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Hugo on January 4, 2020 12:51 am
Step 2 still says “Oracle Java 8”
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- Rahul on January 4, 2020 4:28 am
  Hi Hugo, Thanks for pointing it. I have updated the tutorial correctly.
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Łukasz Przesmycki on November 23, 2019 1:00 pm
This is not an Oracle JDK installation as the title suggest!
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- Rahul on November 25, 2019 10:11 am
  I have corrected the title. Earlier this tutorial was for the Oracle Java installation, But as of now, Oracle Java 8 is not available directly, So we change it to OpenJDK.
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Sen on October 31, 2019 11:49 am
This works perfectly as of 31-Oct-2019
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Ashish on October 8, 2019 8:56 am
Working perfectly
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Sathishkumar on September 5, 2019 7:07 am
Hi, I’m using Ubuntu 18.04 and I’m getting below error :
Package oracle-java8-installer is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package ‘oracle-java8-installer’ has no installation candidate
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- Alison on September 23, 2019 9:14 pm
  This article is out of date, and, as of September 2019, no longer works.
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Shivdas Kanade on August 2, 2019 9:33 am
very easy steps. Thanks
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Edwin Smith Velandia Salazar on June 6, 2019 4:05 pm
work for me,
sudo apt-get install default-jdk
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt-get install default-jre
java –version
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk
sudo update-alternatives –config java
Existen 2 opciones para la alternativa java (que provee /usr/bin/java).
Selección Ruta Prioridad Estado
————————————————————
0 /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java 1101 modo automático
1 /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/java 1101 modo manual
* 2 /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java 1081 modo manual
Pulse para mantener el valor por omisión [*] o pulse un número de selección:
*** in my case, i used java-8, press 2
and my app work.
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- Jonathan on October 21, 2019 5:11 pm
  worked on LinuxMint. Thanks
  Reply
Jignesh on May 31, 2019 4:39 pm
It’s not working and it won’t work. You need to update your article. Oracle has made it mandatory to create an account and download the required version. The PPA method is deprecated and it won’t work.
TIP: Make sure you download the binary version or the Oracle 8 JDK.
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sirius2834 on May 29, 2019 9:50 am
Actually it is possible to install Java 8 u 131 to Mint 19+ or Ubuntu 18+.
Search for these files on the Internet:
oracle-java8-installer_8u131-1_webupd8_2_all.deb
oracle-java8-set-default_8u131-1_webupd8_2_all.deb
oracle-java8-unlimited-jce-policy_8u131-1_webupd8_2_all.deb
Then:
sudo oracle-java8-installer_8u131-1_webupd8_2_all.deb
sudo oracle-java8-set-default_8u131-1_webupd8_2_all.deb
(and you can install the unlimited one, but not necessary by defalut)
In contrary to the abandoned PPA, you can install these without problems and the ‘Oracle Java 8 Plugin Control Panel’ will work too.
If the .jnlp files don’t open in Firefox, then select “open with” and enter “javaws” .
There is virtually no info of Java 8 for the latest Mint/Ubutu installation over the internet and I had to figure it out too.
I hope it helps!
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- Rahul on May 31, 2019 6:40 am
  Hi,
  Java 8 is no more available to download from Oracle site. But if you have any existing installation on another system, can be used to install to your system.
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Harshit on May 2, 2019 2:02 pm
This is not working. It is showing this error E: Package ‘oracle-java8-installer’ has no installation candidate
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- Vsevolod on May 7, 2019 7:27 am
  because oracle changed license for it’s jdk. this tutor is useless and, in fact, scam.
  Reply
krishna on April 29, 2019 9:38 am
Hi
when i try to intall the java8. By these commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt update; sudo apt install oracle-java8-installer
after the second command i am getting error like this
“Package oracle-java8-installer is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source”
what to do ? and i have tried everything to come out of this i can’t able to do this
plzz help me out.
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Va Sja on April 28, 2019 4:06 pm
Unfortunately don’t work anymore 🙁
>
>~/Downloads/jdk1.8.0_202$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default
>[sudo] password for i1:
>Reading package lists… Done
>Building dependency tree
>Reading state information… Done
>E: Unable to locate package oracle-java8-set-default
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Chuanpeng Hu on April 17, 2019 8:29 pm
Hi, there,
Thanks so much for your post. It’s helpful.
But I failed to install java,
> sudo apt install oracle-java11-installer
I got this error message:
Resolving login.oracle.com (login.oracle.com)… 209.17.4.8
Connecting to login.oracle.com (login.oracle.com)|209.17.4.8|:443… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 401 Authorization Required
Username/Password Authentication Failed.
download failed
Oracle JDK 8 is NOT installed.
dpkg: error processing package oracle-java8-installer (–configure):
installed oracle-java8-installer package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.9-2) …
Setting up oracle-java11-set-default (11.0.2-2~linuxuprising1) …
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) …
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) …
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.12.6-0ubuntu2) …
Errors were encountered while processing:
oracle-java8-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
One possibility is that “401 is because 8u211 is the first version that is paid only. The previous 8u201 was the last freely available version.” as suggested by one comment here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46815897/jdk-8-is-not-installed-error-404-not-found
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Neha on March 15, 2019 11:36 am
I need jdk version to be like this
Java version “1.8.0_40”
Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_40-b25)
Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.40-b25, mixed mode)
How do I do it for Ubuntu 18.10
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Alexandre Pedro on February 17, 2019 6:58 pm
Linux Mint 19.1, couldn’t do the last step as the guide says. Ended up doing:
sudo nano /etc/environment
Paste in:
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle
JRE_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre
Save and exit.
Thank you for the guide!
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- Joshua on February 22, 2019 1:37 pm
  Same here.
  Reply
Ram on January 19, 2019 12:23 pm
This is simple and extremely easy explanation
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Veda on July 8, 2018 5:26 pm
But live-streaming of the game can affect their job and makes these enjoy theirs favored game on laptop or pc.
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Ramonita on May 31, 2018 4:10 pm
If they bests the seller he gets twice the total amount
of money inside the payout than he’d have if he had gained without doubling.
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scott on March 24, 2018 11:56 am
Location: http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/?AuthParam=1521892631_53f4fd9f2a836d690ba6d31c8b160b91 [following]
–2018-03-24 11:55:11– http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/?AuthParam=1521892631_53f4fd9f2a836d690ba6d31c8b160b91
Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|2.21.188.165|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
2018-03-24 11:55:12 ERROR 404: Not Found.
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- Rahul K. on March 25, 2018 2:28 am
  Hi Scott,
  I have checked commands and this is working for me. Which operating system version are you using?
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vanderlei on March 4, 2018 10:42 pm
W: Falhou ao buscar http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/vivid-backports/universe/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.149 80]
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vanderlei on March 4, 2018 10:39 pm
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
sudo: não foi possível resolver máquina leni
Lendo listas de pacotes… Pronto
Construindo árvore de dependências
Lendo informação de estado… Pronto
Alguns pacotes não puderam ser instalados. Isto pode significar que
você solicitou uma situação impossível ou, se você está usando a
distribuição instável, que alguns pacotes requeridos não foram
criados ainda ou foram retirados da “Incoming”.
A informação a seguir pode ajudar a resolver a situação:
Os pacotes a seguir têm dependências desencontradas:
oracle-java8-installer : Depende: java-common (>= 0.24) mas não é instalável
Recomenda: gsfonts-x11 mas não é instalável
Recomenda: oracle-java8-set-default mas não será instalado
E: Impossível corrigir problemas, você manteve (hold) pacotes quebrados.
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Ankit Tiwari on January 22, 2018 8:36 am
Hello
Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|104.122.105.69|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
2018-01-22 13:59:51 ERROR 404: Not Found.
download failed
Oracle JDK 8 is NOT installed.
dpkg: error processing package oracle-java8-installer (–configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
oracle-java8-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I am getting this error while running install command on terminal on linux mint 17.2.
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- Rahul K. on January 22, 2018 10:23 am
  Hi Ankit, The webupd8 team has not updated the package yet to PPA. For the time, You can download packages to install Java 8.
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l8NTWhZrwYjvjRMXvAgTNXbExJ08eIjU/view
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Bill Schwob on January 20, 2018 6:41 pm
when i do this all i get is
download failed
Oracle JDK 8 is NOT installed.
dpkg: error processing package oracle-java8-installer (–configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
oracle-java8-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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- Rahul K. on January 22, 2018 10:23 am
  Hi Bill, The webupd8 team has not updated the package yet to PPA. For the time, You can download packages to install Java 8.
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1l8NTWhZrwYjvjRMXvAgTNXbExJ08eIjU/view
  Reply
Nathan on January 18, 2018 12:17 am
Great information. Appreciate the time you took to share this feedback for us computer nerds. Love your blog too. Java is still one of the best options out there.
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Jari on September 19, 2017 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 🙂
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BK on August 12, 2017 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?
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tullio on July 26, 2017 7:04 pm
i’m not being able to edit the etc/environment file!!!
please help?!
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- Icthyo on August 3, 2017 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.
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- Armando on September 6, 2017 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.
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Tim Cooper on December 28, 2016 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…
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- Rahul K. on December 29, 2016 5:28 am
  Hi Tim,
  This installs JDK and JRE both. After installation you can check install java compiler.
  $ javac -version
  javac 1.8.0_111
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Jeff on October 28, 2016 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
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meya on August 12, 2016 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
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- ilium007 on September 1, 2016 1:41 am
  I didn’t get a JDK downloaded either. Does anyone have a suggestion ?
  Reply
JeanAlesi on August 11, 2016 9:27 pm
I don’t like it.. It’s too easy.
Do you have a harder example?
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vikas avnish on August 7, 2016 7:18 pm
This is simple and extremely easy explanation
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tiago on August 7, 2016 2:53 am
I want know becouse we make donwload of archive on site of oracle and that file i dont can install
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Nikolaj on August 4, 2016 11:31 am
1-up!!! Thanks! you saved my day 🙂
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Samuele Soraggi on July 29, 2016 10:15 pm
Thanks for your suggestions, this solution is fast and understandable. i owe you one 😀
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Gustavo Chavarro Ortiz on July 21, 2016 3:29 am
that is the best guide of the INTERNET, thanks man.
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Pavel on July 16, 2016 4:23 am
Thank you maaaan!
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john on July 14, 2016 9:54 pm
I’ve installed java 1.8 on two devices thanks to this beautiful simple process
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Barry on July 10, 2016 4:22 pm
🙂 you da man thanks!
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Chukwuemeka on July 9, 2016 7:00 pm
Great guide.
Thanks!
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Manjunath on July 5, 2016 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
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xiaoguang on July 1, 2016 12:57 pm
thanks
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Cristian Leal on June 26, 2016 4:43 pm
Genio, muchas gracias. Saludos desde Argentina!
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il0v3tweakS on June 23, 2016 7:00 pm
This saved my day! Thank you!
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Fredah on June 20, 2016 3:13 pm
This saved me a whole day of manually doing it myself. Thanks so much!!
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Melinda on May 25, 2016 8:48 pm
Great step-by-step process document!! Thanks.
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brucewayne on May 7, 2016 2:57 pm
thanks!
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Luis Felipe on May 3, 2016 5:21 pm
Thanks a lot! You all helped me a lot!
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deva on May 3, 2016 10:30 am
nice documentation
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sue on April 30, 2016 10:43 pm
i already had java7. after installing java8, java- -version still gives jdk7… whats the solution?
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- vamsi on January 30, 2019 10:49 am
  have u got any solution? for this ….
  Reply
Z06R8CR on April 29, 2016 9:42 pm
Thanks for the great instructions!
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Jonatas on April 29, 2016 3:18 pm
Thank you !
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Benedito Sene on April 28, 2016 11:07 pm
Thank you very much !!
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prathinma on April 19, 2016 5:37 am
Thank You so much
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Max on April 17, 2016 8:19 pm
Thank bro none of the site help out on google but u r site instruction was extremely perfect….
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Mrunal on April 13, 2016 10:34 am
This article was extremely helpful. Please keep posting Linux and Java related articles.
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Gustavo Zaera Holo on March 12, 2016 8:18 pm
Thanks for a simple and great HOWTO! 🙂
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srinidhi on February 25, 2016 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
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- tohuuu on March 30, 2016 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.
  Reply
shravan on February 22, 2016 3:37 am
Thank you very much
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ubBa on February 16, 2016 6:19 pm
It is not working for me.
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- Rahul on February 17, 2016 4:54 am
  Hi,
  What issue are you facing ?
  Reply
Eduardo on February 14, 2016 1:37 pm
Thanks man. It works perfectly.
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Luis on February 4, 2016 4:33 pm
Muy útil, muchas gracias.
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Jaswant on January 26, 2016 2:54 pm
Very useful tutorial…
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Aradhya Sen on January 26, 2016 2:35 pm
Thank you
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Manurmu on January 26, 2016 5:07 am
hey!!! so usefull!!!! thank a lot!!!!! 😀
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Michael on January 26, 2016 4:34 am
Thanks dude searched everywhere for guides but yours is the best and easiest.
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PRESIDENT on January 24, 2016 8:55 am
Thank you 😉
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Ananda Bayu on January 7, 2016 10:24 am
Hey, i’am new with linux and its very usefull thanks for the tutorial.
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Tanja on January 5, 2016 5:43 pm
Thank you very much for this. It helped a lot!
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Ian on December 30, 2015 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.
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- Rahul on December 31, 2015 9:55 am
  Hi Ian,
  Its still working for me. Please confirm what OS version are you using ?
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lanowar on December 26, 2015 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.
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nicolas on December 14, 2015 9:04 pm
Very nice, simple and useful
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Allen Burns on December 9, 2015 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!
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- ZAID BOUDAMOUZ on December 18, 2015 7:08 pm
  I agree with you comment !!! It’s not a JDK and only a Runtime then, no option to compile (no javac compiler)
  Reply
IZVITE on December 7, 2015 10:19 am
Thanks a lot!
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Zacknov on December 5, 2015 2:24 pm
Nice article. So the reference in my blog yes
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Bharath on November 25, 2015 10:19 am
Thanks a lot
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java on November 21, 2015 12:24 pm
thanks
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Pracaonline on November 14, 2015 12:09 am
Thanks for that short advice, for now everything is working 😉 and let it stay in this way 😉
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qwerty on October 29, 2015 9:45 am
Thank you!
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kevin on October 28, 2015 2:27 am
thank, ..thank you very much, very nice work
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Miguel on October 25, 2015 12:09 am
Very Nice, thanks!
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yogesh on October 22, 2015 5:04 pm
you follow this post and enjoy java8. very nice work done by techadmin.
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Gabriel on October 19, 2015 5:40 am
Thanks dude ° this information was util.
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Gaspar on October 13, 2015 12:14 pm
Good job!
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Zvonimir on October 12, 2015 3:13 pm
Does not work trows class not found exception
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Yogendra on October 6, 2015 2:14 am
everything went in a breeze – cool
thanks
looking for manual procedure to do stepbystep as well
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Mohammad Dashti on September 30, 2015 4:17 pm
Thanks a lot.
Very helpful.
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Steve on September 30, 2015 1:59 pm
Thanks man!! Worked like a champ!
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Elvir on September 16, 2015 2:10 am
Muito obrigado amigo.
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bdnahomi on August 31, 2015 1:06 am
Thank you very useful
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Sergio on August 25, 2015 12:22 am
Thanks
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Gurbachan Singh on August 21, 2015 1:37 pm
While installing throw sha256sum mismatch jdk-8u60-linux-x64.tar.gz
please help me to out this problem
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Vinit on August 20, 2015 1:27 pm
Thank you so much……Really really helped alot….. 🙂
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David G. Pickett on August 18, 2015 9:49 pm
Is there a way to get it to move up from 51 to 60? The website says I am behind!
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nelson molina on August 18, 2015 12:46 am
Thanks very thamkful!!
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Yura on August 7, 2015 9:12 pm
Really helpful information.
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Bala on August 5, 2015 2:07 pm
Good One!
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Leenie on August 2, 2015 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.
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sumit on July 22, 2015 2:59 pm
thankyou somuch
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BPatient on June 24, 2015 10:36 am
Thank you sharing a such helpful article
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Aaron on June 22, 2015 7:44 pm
idk how to install this
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Harshita on June 12, 2015 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 ?
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- Zoli1972 on July 21, 2015 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
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  - Zoli1972 on July 21, 2015 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
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Sohan on June 8, 2015 11:43 am
Very helpful article.
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Sergio on June 1, 2015 6:01 pm
Very helpful,
Thanks !!!
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Luigi on May 27, 2015 4:29 pm
Very helpful article. Thanks.
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Amit on May 26, 2015 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
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- pritis on October 8, 2015 9:59 am
  use arrow keys to move, enter to accept
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Os on May 22, 2015 9:35 pm
Thank you!! It works!.
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MARCELO on May 5, 2015 3:21 pm
Thanks for the info! very helpful…
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reshma on May 4, 2015 10:46 am
Thank you so much, this helped a lot !!!!
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Javild on April 24, 2015 6:35 pm
Thanks from a spanish user!
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Rana on April 13, 2015 5:48 am
Thanks! It helped a lot!
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habdul on April 10, 2015 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?
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- Rahul on April 11, 2015 3:20 am
  Hi Habdul,
  Do you mean java is working with browser ? If yes which browser are you using ?
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NoSyu on January 6, 2015 7:02 am
Thank you for kind article to install java 1.8 in Ubuntu 14.04.
It works well. 🙂
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Abdul Hannan on January 4, 2015 4:51 pm
Will it work for Ubuntu 14.10?
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Jim Somerville on December 28, 2014 12:51 am
This is very handy, thank you. And thank you to the Webupd8 Team!
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carlos on December 22, 2014 2:56 pm
thank you, greetings from México.
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Satya Prakash Joshi on December 17, 2014 2:04 pm
You made my day,, thanks allot
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Zoltan on December 13, 2014 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!
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tendertree on December 3, 2014 11:53 am
thanks for post !! it was very helpful for me !
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Avinash on November 30, 2014 10:55 am
Thanks for the guide.. worked fine for me
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Nerunja on November 29, 2014 3:18 am
Thank you very much. This is really helpful.
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Kevin on November 26, 2014 12:11 pm
Awesome! very helpful!
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Tiru on November 23, 2014 6:06 pm
Very useful. Thank you.
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Davi Lima on November 17, 2014 7:57 pm
Very Easy for install Java in Ubuntu 🙂
Nice Job
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Marcio on November 11, 2014 3:57 pm
great! i always wonder why we haven’t something like a repo to install jdk!
great work
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Erwin on November 10, 2014 11:58 am
Thanks a lot. Quick, easy and it installs both JDK and JRE version 8!
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Divine Martins Jr. on November 1, 2014 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
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Ruben on October 29, 2014 8:39 pm
This installs the JRE not the JDK/SDK. Is not the same ….
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Victor on October 28, 2014 4:17 pm
Nice tutorial!
But now, How do you uninstall it?
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- Tiru on November 23, 2014 6:14 pm
  Packages can be removed with
  >sudo apt-get –purge remove packageName
  apt-get remove may some times leave behind some files.
  –purge will remove all files.
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Telepath on October 24, 2014 9:34 pm
Hi, whish all of costum installs have these very good install help,
saves lots of time , thx,
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PK on October 21, 2014 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.
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- Telepath on October 24, 2014 9:36 pm
  no problem here with sudo, name (and all further instructions are correct)
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- Hi on December 12, 2014 4:58 pm
  Yeah.. same problem here
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Jeroen on October 6, 2014 9:09 pm
Thanks man, saved me some time 🙂
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ceghap on September 26, 2014 11:26 am
thanks! 🙂
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BlastedChango on September 22, 2014 8:19 pm
Thank you very much, this helped a lot
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Alan on September 22, 2014 2:29 am
Very good, help so much
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bigspawn on September 20, 2014 1:12 pm
Thank’s for this article!
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Elias on September 18, 2014 6:35 pm
Thanks! Very helpful.
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mike on September 13, 2014 9:42 pm
you guys rock
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Dery on September 12, 2014 10:07 pm
Thank you so much!
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Victor on September 8, 2014 6:51 pm
Thank you!
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eyescream on August 31, 2014 10:07 pm
thank you very very much
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juju on August 23, 2014 7:46 pm
Missing the – in java -version
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- juju on August 23, 2014 7:47 pm
  Woops! Retract that!
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magma on August 22, 2014 6:40 pm
many thanks, this helped a lot!
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pedro on July 25, 2014 2:51 am
Thanks!
I can´t access my bank with open-jdk, only with oracle-java
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Madhu on July 22, 2014 7:45 am
Useful Information, Thanks
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Nestor Octavio on July 9, 2014 4:11 pm
Nice tutorial
Greetings from Mexico Wey!! :3
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arxos on June 24, 2014 6:32 am
Thanks!!!! God Thanks!!!!
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wei-ting on June 1, 2014 8:58 pm
Hi, these information is very useful. Thank you very much.
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