Moving from JDK 1.7 to JDK 1.8 on Ubuntu

Question

I am on UBUNTU. JDK version currently installed is:

java version \"1.7.0_51\"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_51-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Se         


        

Answer 1

You can easily install 1.8 via PPA. Which can be done by:

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

Then check the running version:

$ java -version

If you must do it manually there's already an answer for that on AskUbuntu here.