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There is the WebUpd8 Java PPA which can ease installing of Oracle Java if this is OK with you?

Thanks Andrew,

I will try it. from

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

If you dont get a win, run:

lsb_release -a

and I will give suggestions.

I ran the above and got this:-

richard@richard-desktop:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
richard@richard-desktop:~$

When I ran:-

sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Did seam to work, how do I prove it?

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

Source :
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html?m=1

I did the following:-
richard@richard-desktop:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
[sudo] password for richard:
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
 Oracle Java (JDK) Installer (automatically downloads and installs Oracle JDK7 / JDK8 / JDK9). There are no actual Java files in this PPA.

More info (and Ubuntu installation instructions):
- for Oracle Java 7: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/install-oracle-java-jdk-7-in-ubuntu-via.html
- for Oracle Java 8: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/install-oracle-java-8-in-ubuntu-via-ppa.html

Debian installation instructions:
- Oracle Java 7: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/06/how-to-install-oracle-java-7-in-debian.html
- Oracle Java 8: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/how-to-install-oracle-java-8-in-debian.html

Important!!! For now, you should continue to use Java 8 because Oracle Java 9 is available as an early access release (it should be released in 2016)! You should only use Oracle Java 9 if you explicitly need it, because it may contain bugs and it might not include the latest security patches! Also, some Java options were removed in JDK9, so you may encounter issues with various Java apps. More information and installation instructions (Ubuntu / Linux Mint / Debian): http://www.webupd8.org/2015/02/install-oracle-java-9-in-ubuntu-linux.html
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/java
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpHT1hxk/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpHT1hxk/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key EEA14886 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpHT1hxk/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key EEA14886: public key "Launchpad VLC" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK

Them ran:- sudo apt-get update

Next I did, from your instructions above:-

richard@richard-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
oracle-java7-installer is already the newest version.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
richard@richard-desktop:~$

Thought the idea was to update to Java 8?

Am I missing something here?

Or should I use this ?

Our PPA supports Ubuntu 15.04, 14.10, 14.04 and 12.04 as well as Linux Mint 17.1, 17 and 13. Add the PPA and install Oracle Java 8 (the package provides both JDK8 and JRE8) using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Auto update just installed Java 8