Cannot upgrade RPi to JDK 1.8

[Yokosumari]

Hello. I've been trying to troubleshoot this issue, but I haven't had much luck. When I run "sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-jdk" everything installs fine. However when I run "java -version" it's still coming up as version 1.6. How do I remedy this?

[Navyscourge]

Are you running the latest Jessie Raspbian? How and when did you install it?

My Jessie gives

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ java -version
java version "1.8.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode)

What do you get from

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apt-cache policy

That should show either jessie or wheezy

[johnnyalpha8]

You can edit .bashrc in your home directory. Add two lines:

alias java=/path/to/your/java/binary
alias javac=/path/to/your/javac/binary