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On a new Debian system I installed JRE using

sudo apt-get install default-jre

Then I downloaded a jar-file and tried running it:

java -jar server.jar

The file threw an exception:

java.lang.unsupportedclassversionerror unsupported major.minor version 52.0

So I started looking for a solution and followed a user's instruction:

sudo rm /usr/bin/java
sudo ln -s /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java /usr/bin

Afterwards I realized that I don't even have a directory /Library and therefore this link isn't pointing anywhere.

Now I can't even run java anymore:

java -jar server.jar
-bash: /usr/bin/java: No such file or directory

I already tried uninstalling JRE und reinstalling it:

apt-get remove default-jre
apt-get update
apt-get install default-jre

Which didn't change anything though.

Java seems to be installed:

    find /usr -name java
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/java
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java
/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin/java
user3367856
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To restore your /usr/bin/java link, you should run

sudo update-java-alternatives -a

If you were using Debian 9 (as mentioned initially), you shouldn’t have run into these issues, since OpenJDK 8 is the default there and OpenJDK 7 isn’t even available. To fix things so that you can run version 52 classes (i.e. Java 8 classes), install OpenJDK 8:

sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre

On Debian 8 you can install OpenJDK 8 from backports:

echo deb http://archive.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jessie-backports.list
echo 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until "false";' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/apt.conf
sudo apt update
sudo apt -t jessie-backports install openjdk-8-jre

(See Failed to fetch jessie backports repository for details.)

You’ll then need to specifically choose OpenJDK 8 as the default:

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64

(To see the possible values, run /usr/sbin/update-java-alternatives -l.)

Stephen Kitt
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If you get error as below:

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

Run:

apt-get install libc6-i386

Some 32bit libs are missing

jimmij
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Nilesh Gaikwad
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  • No, /usr/bin/java is a symbolic link that is broken, according to the question. Installing some 32-bit libraries will not make the link into the non-existing directory /Library work. – Kusalananda Nov 25 '19 at 10:34