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I am quite new to Ubuntu. I have recently installed 14.04 on my PC and it's fantastic. My only real issue for Ubuntu is that I need an Internet connection to install things effectively. I had recently downloaded the Oracle JDK (1.8.0_77 for 32 bit) and tried to install it. I know for sure that I am running 32 bit. When I unpacked the tar.gz and put it into /usr/lib/jvm (I have also tried this in /usr/local/java) and I used all the necessary commands (sudo updates alternatives, etc) but when I run /usr/lib/JVM/jdk1.8.0_77/bin/java I get an error: 

bash: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_77/bin/java: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

Is there something I did wrong? Is there a way for me to easily install JDK on my PC without Internet connection?

techraf
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It's 2016. You should have an internet connection.

If you don't have an internet connection, you can still use packages. Download the package here. This is Java 7. There is no official Java 8 package for Ubuntu 14.04, so you'd need the get it from a thirdparty website if you really want Java 8.

You need the one for i386 because you're running a 32 bit system. Make sure to also download all packages that package depends on and install them before you install the package you intend to install.

You can install a downloaded package via:

sudo dpkg -i fileYouDownloaded.deb
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  • Thanks for the response, This doesn't exactly help. I would need to go through and download each required package by hand. A tool like Synaptic would be nice if only for android. ( Also last I checked not everyone in the world has access to internet, maybe some sense of understanding would be nice. Internet is expensive, would you like to pay my bills? ) –  Apr 03 '16 at 03:31