Install Oracle JDK on Linux

Most linux distributions come with OpenJDK installed. This tutorial was written to teach how to install Oracle JDK on Linux.

1)Remove OpenJDK Installation apt-get update && apt-get autoremove --purge openjdk*

2)Download latest Oracle JDK. Look for linux version ending with tar.gz. Download for 32-bit or 64-bit.

3)Change into Downloads directory cd Downloads/

4)Extract tarball(downloaded file) tar -xvzf jdk*

5)As a root, create java folder in /opt sudo mkdir -p /opt/java

6)Move extracted folder into created folder mv jdk /opt/java

7)Make Oracle JDK as default sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/opt/java/jdk/bin/java" 1 sudo update-alternatives --set java /opt/java/jdk/bin/java

Test your installation by running following command: java --version