ubuntu 16.04 - E: Package 'oracle-java8-installer' has no installation candidate

Question

I tried to install java8 using the following commands:

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

I'm getting an error as follows :

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

when I searched the error, I found out that "WebUpd8" team has officially discontinued there support.
Please help to install oracle java 8. I'm using ubuntu 16.04.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55920389/e-package-oracle-java8-installer-has-no-installation-candidate

Answer 1

I just went through the same process and I?fixed the problem by manually installing java 8 on my ubuntu 18.04 machine. Hopefully my answer will help you.

1. Download the latest JAVA 8 SE development kit from here: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-archive-javase8-2177648.html
2. Open your terminal.
3. Type $mkdir /opt/jdk.
4. Untar Java in your new folder $tar -zxf jdk-8u5-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt/jdk.
5. Set oracle JDK as the default JVM by running those two instructions (or something around that depending on your configuration):

Note: Each bullet point is one single command

• update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0_<YourVersion>/bin/java 100
• update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0_<YourVersion>/bin/javac 100

You can check the result by running java -version !

Before I?started, I?went through those steps as well in order to remove completely java from my system: https://askubuntu.com/questions/84483/how-to-completely-uninstall-java#185250

The source I?used for the manual installation of JAVA was this article: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-manually-install-oracle-java-on-a-debian-or-ubuntu-vps