Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 in ubuntu

Question

I am using jdk1.8.0_25, and when I check the version of Java with the following command:

java -version

it outputs the followin

Answer 1

I got the same error, and while the java version correctly set to 8, my JAVA_HOME env var was still set to 7.

Executing this fixed it for me:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle