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I've been running a minecraft server on ubuntu for some time. This morning, I updated to 16.04 and the server won't launch anymore. The error I'm getting in the terminal is:

bash:/usr/bin/java: No such file or directory

What I've done since getting the error:

sudo apt-get install default-java

didn't work.

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

this didn't work either. I saw someone on askubuntu suggesting the following:

sudo apt-get install libc6-i386

Tried it and it didn't work either. I'm kind of just throwing stuff at the wall until something sticks, which I know isn't the right way to go about this!

I'm not quite sure what to try next, can someone give me a hand? Thanks, all!

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    Have you tried whereis java or java -version to be sure java is still where it should be? – George Udosen Dec 04 '16 at 20:31
  • just did, it returns: "java: /usr/bin/java /usr/share/java /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz" – Josh Dec 04 '16 at 20:47
  • please could you paste the full error message as is from the minecraft – George Udosen Dec 04 '16 at 20:52
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    please run this sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java, then sudo ap-get update and finally sudo apt-get install oracle-java<version-of-java>-installer – George Udosen Dec 04 '16 at 20:59
  • @George I did a purge of all java related packages (http://askubuntu.com/questions/84483/how-to-completely-uninstall-java) and installed oracle's java, as you suggested. I've got it working now. You da real MVP... – Josh Dec 04 '16 at 21:31
  • let me put down the solution so you can mark the answer as the accept one, glad it helped – George Udosen Dec 05 '16 at 00:21

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Purge all java packages that are installed already by following the instructions here: askubuntu.com/questions/84483/how-to-completely-uninstall-j‌​ava

Then, do the following to install Oracle's java:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java<version-of-java>-installer
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