I recently upgraded to the latest LTS version on my dev machine and needed to install Java. I couldn't remember exactly what I did last time but knew that I needed to download the tarball from Oracle, save the extracted files somewhere, add the runtime (java), SDK compiler (javac) and webstart (javaws) executables to the ubuntu alternatives list and add a JAVA_HOME refererence … [Read more...] about How to Manually Install Java 8 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS