Install Latest Java 7 and Java 8 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

java7and8-trusty64

### Fucking Linux

It’s 2014, and this is what I had to do to install Java 7 and 8 on latest Ubuntu LTS (Trusty 14.04.1):

    $ vagrant box add box-cutter/ubuntu1404 && vagrant init box-cutter/ubuntu1404
    $ vagrant ssh
    $ apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
    $ apt-get software-properties-common
    $ apt-get install software-properties-common
    $ add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
    $ apt-get update
    $ apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
    $ apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
    $ update-java-alternatives -s java-8-oracle

Somehow I think this is a few notches below useful. More gory details are below.

<http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/install-oracle-java-8-in-ubuntu-via-ppa.html>

<http://askubuntu.com/questions/445536/unable-to-locate-package-add-apt-repository-error>

Vagrant provision block

  config.vm.provision "shell", inline: <<-SHELL
    apt-get -y -q update
    apt-get -y -q upgrade
    apt-get -y -q install software-properties-common htop
    add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
    apt-get -y -q update
    echo oracle-java8-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | sudo /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections
    echo oracle-java7-installer shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | sudo /usr/bin/debconf-set-selections
    apt-get -y -q install oracle-java8-installer
    apt-get -y -q install oracle-java7-installer
    update-java-alternatives -s java-8-oracle
  SHELL

# Add the following line inside the block to install Linux perf tools
# apt-get -y -q install linux-tools-generic linux-cloud-tools-generic linux-tools-3.13.0-40-generic linux-cloud-tools-3.13.0-40-generic

Thank you so much