How To Install openjdk-8-source on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openjdk-8-source
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is openjdk-8-source
openjdk-8-source is:
OpenJDK is a development environment for building applications, applets, and components using the Java programming language.
This package contains the Java programming language source files (src.zip) for all classes that make up the Java core API.
The packages are built using the IcedTea build support and patches from the IcedTea project.
Package: openjdk-8-source Architecture: all Version: 8u252-b09-1ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/java Source: openjdk-8 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: OpenJDK Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 51027 Depends: openjdk-8-jre (>= 8u252-b09-1ubuntu1), openjdk-8-jdk (>= 8u252-b09-1ubuntu1) Replaces: openjdk-8-jdk (« 8u20~b26-1~) Filename: pool/universe/o/openjdk-8/openjdk-8-source_8u252-b09-1ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 46570480 MD5sum: 1a7c0c752a642104597b806ff0944bdb SHA1: a27e073740471cbff62d73238666dc2f9a234cc6 SHA256: e6095d3d17b5256dbcd36189f3987171108b4893a38dd4c790b54f22c0723096 Homepage: http://openjdk.java.net/ Description-en: OpenJDK Development Kit (JDK) source files OpenJDK is a development environment for building applications, applets, and components using the Java programming language.
This package contains the Java programming language source files (src.zip) for all classes that make up the Java core API.
The packages are built using the IcedTea build support and patches from the IcedTea project.
There are three methods to install openjdk-8-source
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install openjdk-8-source Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openjdk-8-source
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openjdk-8-source
Install openjdk-8-source Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openjdk-8-source
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openjdk-8-source
Install openjdk-8-source Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install openjdk-8-source
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openjdk-8-source
How To Uninstall openjdk-8-source on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the openjdk-8-source
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openjdk-8-source
Uninstall openjdk-8-source And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openjdk-8-source
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openjdk-8-source
Remove openjdk-8-source Configurations and Data
To remove openjdk-8-source
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openjdk-8-source
Remove openjdk-8-source configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openjdk-8-source
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openjdk-8-source
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openjdk-8-source
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.