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I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04 on my computer after that I installed Java and now I want to update the current version of java.

Current Version is jdk-8u11 and i want to upgrade it to jdk-8u112.

Can someone please tell me that how to upgrade it?

Please consider that I am new to Ubuntu.

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  • Are you using the java from Ubuntu repo ?
    – George Udosen
    Dec 23, 2016 at 8:19
  • What is the output of this command: java -version
    – Ryko
    Dec 23, 2016 at 10:25

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I assume you install java from ppa:webupd8team/java. But actually last version of java is still jdk-8u111. If you want use jdk-8u112 version, you can install it by downloading their binary and creating symlink.

  • Remove/uninstall jdk-8u111
  • Download 8u112 binary from here

  • Uncompress, move to /usr/java

    sudo tar xvzf jdk-8u112-linux-i586.tar.gz -C /usr/java

Now to set your JAVA_HOME environment variable:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_05/
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java ${JAVA_HOME%*/}/bin/java 20000
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac ${JAVA_HOME%*/}/bin/javac 20000

Make sure the Oracle's java is set as default java by:

update-alternatives --config java

Confirm your recent java version

java -version
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