On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 10:16:25AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > I'm endeavoring to get Java 8 onto our development instance, so that the > Tomcat environment there matches that of our cluster nodes, and apg-get is > not cooperating. > > This particular instance is a Bitnami SVN/Trac server, with Tomcat 8 added > to it, and running independently of the Apache server that came with SVN and > Trac. > > I tried what was given at > https://stackoverflow.com/q/50919305/3654526 > and it didn't work. Even after doing the recommended > > sudo apt-get install dirmngr > > sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys > > EEA14886
I don't understand why this is necessary. > > sudo apt-get update > > sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk -y --allow-unauthenticated > Based on the rest of your output (which I did not repeat here), it looks like what you need to do is this: apt-get install -t jessie-backports openjdk-8-jdk The --allow-unauthenticated option is dangerous. You do not need it here and in general you should not use it. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
