Oracle JDK 8 Mint 18.x Installation Guide
How to Install Oracle-Sun Java SE JDK 8 for Linux Mint 18.x Sarah/Serena/Sonya/Sylvia LTS desktop – Step by step Tutorial.
And to SetUp Oracle JDK 8 on Mint in you may need to make use of the update-alternatives Tool to Update your System Java.
Some Java 8 Features:
- LAMBDA Expressions Programming
- The Stream API
- The Nashorn Javascript Engine
To the How to Download and Install Oracle JDK 8 on Linux Mint 18.x Bottom there is a Link for Quick Start with Java JDK 8 Development on Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA on Mint Linux.
Moreover, to Make the Process Easier to Visualize the Post Includes the Basic Screenshots of the Steps Involved.
The Contents and Details of How to Download and Install Oracle JDK 8 on Linux Mint 18.x are expressly minimal to focus only on the essential instructions and commands and make the tut easier to understand ;)

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Open a Shell session
Ctrl+Alt+t to open a Terminal emulator on desktop
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)
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