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I am completely new to Ubuntu and I want to install jdk8. I downloaded the jdk-8u25linux-x64.tar.gz file from their website, but I wanted to follow a lot YouTube videos but somehow I cannot follow them. lastly I tried with
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25729592/how-to-install-jdk-8-in-ubuntu-12-04-using-tar-gz-file

but when I entered 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

and asks for my password, I give the password and press enter and it is blank, nothing happens afterwards.

Please write some step by step solution and solve my problem.

pomsky
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Tazkera Haque Trina
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  • Ubuntu will not show the characters or asterix's (*) of your password, for security reasons. So it's normal that it does not "write" your password in the terminal. Just to clear out confusion. Other than that, Tobias's answer below is correct. – Dan Johansen Nov 18 '14 at 14:12
  • my problem is not with the passowrd, after i put it nothing there is noe response from the terminal – Tazkera Haque Trina Nov 18 '14 at 14:29

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You're pretty close, you just missed a couple of steps.

Run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

The first command (which you already ran) adds the personal package archive, the second command updates your list of packages and the third command installs the package.

To verify that you installed the correct version, run java -version

Tobias
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