Ubuntu: OpenJDK 8 - Unable to locate package

Question

So I just installed Ubuntu, and this is my first time working in a Linux environment, so bear with my noobishness here.

Anyway, I downloaded the Java 8 JDK directly

Answer 1

I was having the same issue and tried all of the solutions on this page but none of them did the trick.

What finally worked was adding the universe repo to my repo list. To do that run the following command

sudo add-apt-repository universe

After running the above command I was able to run

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre

without an issue and the package was installed.

Hope this helps someone.