Proprietary JDK on Debian

In case you must use the proprietary Oracle JDK:

• grab the JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
• sudo apt-get install java-package
• make-jpkg downloadedpackage.tar.gz

• may need to install some additional dependencies before this succeeds

• install the package. e.g: sudo dpkg -i oracle-java8-jdk_8u92_amd64.deb
• run update-alternatives --config java

If using just tarball:

• sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/java/bin/java 1081
• sudo update-alternatives --config java

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