oracle-java8-installer 404's when downloading jdk

[Brandon Yap]

The oracle-java8-installer tries to download the JDK from Oracle's site but the link is 404'ing. This has happened before (#1744105).
Would greatly appreciate it if someone could please update the package.

Thanks!

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bug reports be filed about source packages so that people interested in the package can find the bugs about it. You can find some hints about determining what package your bug might be about at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. You might also ask for help in the #ubuntu-bugs irc channel on Freenode.

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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The comments in bug 1744105 talk about this not being an official Ubuntu package the need to contact the maintainers of the PPA to get this resolved. The procedure is the same for this bug.