Linux – Switching to Java 1.8 on openSUSE 13.2

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I removed the installed version of Java 1.7 using:

sudo zypper remove -y java-1_7_0-openjdk java-1_7_0-openjdk-devel java-1_7_0-openjdk-plugin

Then installed Java 1.8:

sudo zypper install -y java-1_8_0-openjdk java-1_8_0-openjdk-devel java-1_8_0-openjdk-plugin

But when I run java -version I get:

java version "1.7.0_71"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.3) (suse-1.1-x86_64)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.65-b04, mixed mode)

Am I missing a symbolic link somewhere?

Best Answer

This would be better as a comment, but I don't have that privilege.

Do you have a proprietary Java package? Did you re-logon? Check what is installed using sudo zypper search -i java. You should be able to see whatever is providing java version 1.7 and remove that package. It is possible to manually install proprietary java packages, and indeed there are manually-created symlinks in the instructions (which I have never successfully implemented) but I would think finding and removing the package providing 1.7 would be the place to start in this case.

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