Comments on: How to install OpenJDK 8 on Debian 10 (Buster)

By: Logicbug

Logicbug — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:37:29 +0000

Hey, this worked perfectly! Thank you for publishing this info. I installed Java 8 and then went to install Minecraft and everything worked first time!
The ‘vim’ problem noted by someone earlier was good to know, I used gedit instead. Thank you!

By: Chetan Kapoor

Chetan Kapoor — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 08:26:31 +0000

In reply to Sam. Hey Sam, I can install it by using all the above commands.

apt list --installed | grep jdk
adoptopenjdk-8-hotspot/buster,now 8u232-b09-2 amd64 [installed]

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 01:06:56 +0000

Still does not work. Unable to locate

By: Chetan Kapoor

Chetan Kapoor — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 08:17:47 +0000

In reply to sam. Hey Sam, I have updated the post to install JDK 8. Now you can install OpenJDK 8 on Debian 10.

By: Chetan Kapoor

Chetan Kapoor — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 08:17:19 +0000

In reply to Keith Chiasson. Hey Keith, I have updated the post. Now you can install OpenJDK 8 on Debian 10.

By: Keith Chiasson

Keith Chiasson — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 20:56:48 +0000

There is no openjdk-8-jdk package in Debian 10, it got shipped with Java 11.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:31:55 +0000

$ apt install openjdk-8-jdk

Casues:

Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package openjdk-8-jdk

Debian 10 starts at Java11, apparently, so this doesn’t actually work, unless you changed something else