Java Install Fails On Ubuntu 14

Question

I am trying installl jave 8 (jre/jdk) in my ubuntu 14.0.4

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

I get below error

Using wget settings from /var/cache/oracle-jdk8-installer/wgetrc
Downloading Oracle Java 8...
--2017-10-17 16:42:09--  http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u144-b01/090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135/jdk-8u144-linux-x64.tar.gz
Resolving download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)... 64.78.224.186, 64.78.224.185
Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|64.78.224.186|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://edelivery.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u144-b01/090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135/jdk-8u144-linux-x64.tar.gz [following]
--2017-10-17 16:42:10--  https://edelivery.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u144-b01/090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135/jdk-8u144-linux-x64.tar.gz
Resolving edelivery.oracle.com (edelivery.oracle.com)... 23.217.152.181, 2600:141b:13:28c::2d3e
Connecting to edelivery.oracle.com (edelivery.oracle.com)|23.217.152.181|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u144-b01/090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135/jdk-8u144-linux-x64.tar.gz?AuthParam=1508276650_49e5615c0aa8584dd72b809fbec787eb [following]
--2017-10-17 16:42:10--  http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u144-b01/090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135/jdk-8u144-linux-x64.tar.gz?AuthParam=1508276650_49e5615c0aa8584dd72b809fbec787eb
Connecting to download.oracle.com (download.oracle.com)|64.78.224.186|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2017-10-17 16:42:11 ERROR 404: Not Found.

download failed
Oracle JDK 8 is NOT installed.

looks like it is looking for 8u144 which is not available.

How can i make it look for 8u151?

I did this sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -> no luck

Answer 1

This has been an issue as of today (we hit the webupd8team ppa once a day for oracle-8-installer). From past experience it's probably due to the fact that Oracle released their quarterly Java updates overnight (8u151 and 8u152), and moved or deleted 8u144. If you dig into the ppa you'll see it only references 8u144.

I'm not that knowledgable on how the webupd8team ppa is managed, but presumably it requires some manual intervention on the maintainer's part to fix the issue.

Answer 2

I am trying out this solution: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2374686 -> No luck at the moment

What works for me, I tried manually with this:

1. Create a folder to put JDK

   mkdir /opt/jdk cd /opt

2. Download the latest JDK:

   wget --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u152-b16/aa0333dd3019491ca4f6ddbe78cdb6d0/jdk-8u152-linux-x64.tar.gz

3. Extract it

   tar -zxf jdk-8u152-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt/jdk

4. Set it as default

   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0_152/bin/java 100

   update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0_152/bin/javac 100

Answer 3

"As a temporary work around":

cd /var/lib/dpkg/info
sudo sed -i 's|JAVA_VERSION=8u144|JAVA_VERSION=8u152|' oracle-java8-installer.*
sudo sed -i 's|PARTNER_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u144-b01/090f390dda5b47b9b721c7dfaa008135/|PARTNER_URL=http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u152-b16/aa0333dd3019491ca4f6ddbe78cdb6d0/|' oracle-java8-installer.*
sudo sed -i 's|SHA256SUM_TGZ="e8a341ce566f32c3d06f6d0f0eeea9a0f434f538d22af949ae58bc86f2eeaae4"|SHA256SUM_TGZ="218b3b340c3f6d05d940b817d0270dfe0cfd657a636bad074dcabe0c111961bf"|' oracle-java8-installer.*
sudo sed -i 's|J_DIR=jdk1.8.0_144|J_DIR=jdk1.8.0_152|' oracle-java8-installer.*

And then try installing JAVA again. From this ubuntuforums thread.