{"id":4521,"date":"2015-01-13T15:26:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2015-01-13T15:26:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:26:36","slug":"install-openjdk-8-ubuntu-14-04-12-04-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/install-openjdk-8-ubuntu-14-04-12-04-lts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install OpenJDK 8 in Ubuntu 14.04 &#038; 12.04 LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/java_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/java_logo.png\" alt=\"OpenJDK Java 8\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/java_logo.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/java_logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>OpenJDK Java 8 has been made into official Ubuntu repositories for 14.10 Utopic and higher. For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and Linux Mint 17 users here&#8217;s how to install it from PPA.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>OpenJDK 8 was released in March 2014. It&#8217;s available in Ubuntu Software Center for Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04. Someone has <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/openjdk-8\/+bug\/1341628\" target=\"_blank\">reported in launchpad<\/a> asking for packaging openjdk-8 in Ubuntu 14.04, but no luck so far.<\/p>\n<p>As a workaround, you can install OpenJDK 8 from a <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~openjdk-r\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\">PPA repository<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>1. Open terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T. When it opens, run the command below to add PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/add-openjdk-ppa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/add-openjdk-ppa.jpg\" alt=\"OpenJDK 8 PPA\" width=\"600\" height=\"239\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/add-openjdk-ppa.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/add-openjdk-ppa-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Type in user password when it asks and hit Enter to continue.<\/p>\n<p>2. After that, update system package cache and install OpenJDK 8:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update \r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk<\/pre>\n<p>3. If you have more than one Java versions installed on your system. Run below command set the default Java:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo update-alternatives --config java<\/pre>\n<p>Type in a number to select a Java version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/set-default-java.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/set-default-java.jpg\" alt=\"set default java version\" width=\"600\" height=\"290\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/set-default-java.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/set-default-java-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And set default Java Compiler by running:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo update-alternatives --config javac<\/pre>\n<p>4. Finally check out current Java version by running:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">java -version<\/pre>\n<p>It outputs something like this:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none; background:none;\">openjdk version \"1.8.0_01-internal\"\r\nOpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_01-internal-b04)\r\nOpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.40-b08, mixed mode)<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenJDK Java 8 has been made into official Ubuntu repositories for 14.10 Utopic and higher. For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and Linux Mint 17 users here&#8217;s how to install it from PPA. OpenJDK 8 was released in March 2014. It&#8217;s available in Ubuntu Software Center for Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 15.04. Someone has reported in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[239,319,1207],"class_list":["post-4521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-java","tag-openjdk","tag-openjdk-8"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}