How to install java 7 on your Linux. Below you will find Oracle (former Sun) java 7 installed on Debian Linux At the moment there is no official debian (and linux at all) package (de) for java 7 and apt-get is not working for us, like previously with open jdk. Firstly we have to download the latest java from oracle site and then extract it. wget http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7/jdk-7-