On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 23:11:51 +0100 DJDavid98 <djdavi...@gmail.com> wrote: > For anyone else having issues with installing Java 8 now, I managed to get > back up and running by using Oracle's official version of Java. > > €‹For convenience here's a list of commands one has to run to get Java 8 > working on their Debian Jessie machine​ (until this issue gets resolved): > > echo -e "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial > main\ndeb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial main" > > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-java.list > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer > echo "JAVA_HOME=\"/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle\"" > /etc/environment > source /etc/environment
Also you'll need this line (which I forgot to add) before you try to do apt-get update: apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 <http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/> --recv-keys EEA14886 And possibly sudo in front of most commands listed.
