Unable to install java8 with homebrew

Question

Installing java8 with Homebrew seems to no longer be working. After running:

brew install caskroom/cask/java8

I get the follow

Answer 1

This has already been answered as a github issue: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions/issues/7253

TLDR: the java8 artefact refers to the Oracle distribution, which has ceased being supported/available. If you really need java 1.8 instead of the latest versions you can take a look at AdoptOpenJDK/homebrew-openjdk.