Comment 6 for bug 1302736

The workaround was provided by AvatarKava not Andy S.

http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/pool/main/o/oracle-java8-installer/oracle-java8-installer_8u0-1~webupd8~5_all.deb
You can download this file or the one specified here
http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages
Or
http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages
for 32bit.

Then
sudo dpkg -i --ignore-depends=apt oracle-java8-installer_8u0-1~webupd8~5_all.deb