On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 01:45:32PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/16/2015 12:14 PM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > >I am using Debian Wheezy 7.9. How can I install openjdk 8 on it? ... > 1. For wheezy-backports, there does not appear to be a newer version of > openjdk-7-sdk. ... > 3. For jessie-backports, openjdk-8-jdk is at 8u66-b17-1~bpo8+1.
My advice to OP would be to first upgrade from wheezy to jessie, and then use a backported OpenJDK. Java is not part of the critical OS packages so the risk of causing a system problem is quite low.
