Getting issue "Oracle Java (JDK) 8 Installer PPA (DISCONTINUED)" when I am running following command - $sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

Question

Getting issue "Oracle Java (JDK) 8 Installer PPA (DISCONTINUED)" when I am running following command -

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

when I run

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

I get

Unable to locate package oracle-java8-installer

This was a change in Oracle JDL Licence agreement. https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java

I was setting up the Ubuntu VM machine on cloud. What should be a workaround?

Answer 1

If there is no specific reason to use JDK 8, you may try 11. Have you tried using PPA from linuxuprising ?

If JDK 11 works for you, you can use this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/java
sudo apt update
sudo apt install oracle-java11-installer

And for the JDK 12 you can use from the same source again ( here is the link ), or basically do this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/java
sudo apt update
sudo apt install oracle-java12-installer