{"id":268,"date":"2013-06-26T19:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T23:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2013-06-26T19:56:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T23:56:05","slug":"install-oracle-jdk-8-on-ubuntu-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/install-oracle-jdk-8-on-ubuntu-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Oracle JDK 8 on Ubuntu Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to evaluate the MySQL plugin for NewRelic so I have to install a JRE on the MySQL server. Gut instinct tells me to go with Oracle JRE&#8230;.not the alternatives. So, Here is what I did to install JRE 8.<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team\/java\r\nsudo apt-get update\r\nsudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>If you receive an error while adding the ppa, something like this:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nerror sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>then<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nsudo apt-get install python-software-properties\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to evaluate the MySQL plugin for NewRelic so I have to install a JRE on the MySQL server. Gut instinct tells me to go with Oracle JRE&#8230;.not the alternatives. So, Here is what I did to install JRE 8. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team\/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer If you receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[153,16],"tags":[155,154,33],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12-04-lts","category-linux","tag-12-04lts","tag-jdk8","tag-ubuntu-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fcrv-4k","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devopsny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}