Installing JDK8 on linux (debian/ubuntu)

So how do I install JDK8 on debian etc these days when there seems to be some mess with Oracle licensing and linux package managers? Found some nice instructions at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-manually-install-oracle-java-on-a-debian-or-ubuntu-vps To summarize: Download the .tar.gz file for linux from Oracle website such as http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads, and we unzip that to some nice and shiny directory. […]

fix some other users password in ubuntu

changing the password for another user in ubuntu when you have sudo rights: sudo passwd <username>