Installing Oracle JDK on AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance

If you are tired of trying with package managers as me, try these steps.

1)Download the needed JDK version from this.

Java SE Downloads

2) Scp into the remote host.

scp Downloads/jdk-8u131-linux-x64.tar.gz nuwan@35.192.113.33:~

3) Unzip to /usr/lib/jvm

sudo tar zxvf jdk-8u131-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /usr/lib/jvm

4) Update the system

sudo update-alternatives — install “/usr/bin/java” “java” “/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_131/bin/java” 1

5) Change the default java

sudo update-alternatives — config java

6) Check java

java -version

Happy coding :-)