Why isn't there a openjdk-8-jdk package on debian anymore?

Solution 1:

You are on Debian 10 (buster), but the link you showed is for Debian 9 (stretch).

OpenJDK is on version 11 for Buster and OpenJDK 8 is not available.

https://packages.debian.org/buster/openjdk-11-jdk

If you need this, use a docker image based on Stretch.

Apparently Debian 10 alias Buster only provides openjdk 11 packages.

In my case this meant using debian 9 alias stretch instead. I must admit it wasn't very clever using latest as a version in the first place.

before:

FROM debian:latest

after:

FROM debian:stretch

Debian stretch is a LTS version supported until 06.2022