Install Oracle JDK on Ubuntu

2014-04-09

This article describes how to install Oracle JDK on Ubuntu. There are two ways to it.

Way I. Install Oracle JDK via PPA

Run in terminal:

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

Way II. Manual installation

Download jdk-8-linux-i586.tar.gz or jdk-8-linux-x64.tar.gz from Oracle official website.

Run the following commands in terminal:

tar -xvf jdk-8-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/jvm
sudo mv ./jdk1.8.0 /usr/lib/jvm/

sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0/bin/java" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0/bin/javac" 1
sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javaws" "javaws" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0/bin/javaws" 1

sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/java
sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/javac
sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/javaws
sudo chown -R root:root /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0

sudo update-alternatives --config java

Install Mozilla Firefox Java plugin (for single user)

32 bit:

ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

64 bit:

ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Install Mozilla Firefox Java plugin (for all users)

32 bit:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

64 bit:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

Install Google Chrome Java plugin

32 bit:

sudo mkdir -p /opt/google/chrome/plugins
cd /opt/google/chrome/plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0/jre/lib/i386/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

64 bit:

sudo mkdir -p /opt/google/chrome/plugins
cd /opt/google/chrome/plugins
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Conclusion

To check active Java version run in terminal:

java -version
javac -version