E: Package 'oracle-java8-installer' has no installation candidate

Question

I tried to install java8 using the following commands:

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


        

Answer 1

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb https://debian.opennms.org/ stable main

Install GPG key of the repository:

wget -O - http://debian.opennms.org/OPENNMS-GPG-KEY | sudo apt-key add -

Update the package index:

sudo apt-get update

Install oracle-java8-installer deb package:

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

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