
Let’s use the alternatives command to configure Java on your system. This command used to creates, removes, maintains and displays information about the symbolic links comprising the alternatives system. The alternatives command is used for maintained symbolic links. Step 2 – Install Java 8 with Alternatives Wget -no-cookies -no-check-certificate -header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Foraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" "" To download the latest Java SE Development Kit 8 release from its official download page or use following commands to download from the shell. Since then I have installed a large number of times Java on CentOS, Redhat based systems without any issues. So I decided to install Java using the compiled source code. Many times I have tried Java installation using rpm packages but I faced some issues. The Oracle team provides Java RPM packages as well as compiled source code.

IMPORTANT: Java 8 is no longer available to download publically.
