And it works on Fedora and probably other Linux distributions too, and not just Ubuntu/Debian. Thanks to this, install-java.sh is a great alternative to the Oracle Java 8 PPA maintained by Web Upd8, or the Oracle Java 11/12 PPA which I maintain, allowing users to install not only the latest Oracle Java version, but any version they desire.

install an Oracle Java build for a different architecture than the system the script runs on.

install Oracle Java 7, 10 and other JDK versions that are now only available to Oracle Customers through My Oracle Support (requires support login).install any Oracle Java 8 version, including Oracle Java demos and the JCE policy.The install-java.sh script is quite versatile, allowing users to install any Oracle JDK major / minor version. It might work on other Linux distributions too. The script developer is says he's mainly using Ubuntu, and therefore the script was only tested on Ubuntu however, I used the script to install and set up Oracle Java on Fedora, and it worked without any issues.

' install-java.sh' is a Bash script for installing and setting up any Oracle Java Development Kit (JDK) version on Debian and Ubuntu based Linux distributions.

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