Interestingly, it is there in Debian Stretch. and it isn't there (I'm using Bullseye/11 - the current stable release).

ĭeb bullseye-security main contrib non-freeĭeb-src bullseye-security main contrib non-free

If it helps, here is my /etc/apt/sources.list file. However the following packages replace it:Į: Package 'openjdk-8-jre' has no installation candidate This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or Package openjdk-8-jre is not available, but is referenced to by another package. Here's what I did to install it: $ sudo apt update I installed Debian 11, and used an advanced installation due to a hypervisor bug*. I need to install the Java 8 JRE, from OpenJDK. That answer mentions that you can get it from the Stretch repos, but I don't want to create a Franken-Debian, so I'm not sure if that's a good idea or not. This VM is solely dedicated to my Java app, so I'm not really interested in using a container. I'm not interested in the reason, instead, I need to install it.

Download java jdk 8