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I have a jar file located at /home/username/Documents/program.jar and when I open the terminal and type java -jar ~/Documents/program.jar I get the following readout:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: amidst/Amidst : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:803)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:442)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:64)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:354)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:348)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:347)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:308)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
    at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:482)

The command java -version outputs the following:

java version "1.7.0_121"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.8) (7u121-2.6.8-1ubuntu0.14.04.1)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 24.121-b00, mixed mode, sharing)

What is the problem and how do I fix it?

cheesits456
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The java -version command confirms that you're running an older version of openjdk (and you may have mixed in a little Oracle Java 7... choose one, not both). Here's the current version information for openjdk...

openjdk version "1.8.0_111"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_111-8u111-b14-2ubuntu0.16.10.2-b14)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.111-b14, mixed mode)

Start Software Updater from the Unity dashboard and update your software.

If you'd rather use Oracle Java, another way to update your java version (specifically if you're using a release less than 16.04) is to use the ppa from the webupd8 team using the following steps:

1) Open terminal (ctrl+alt+t)

2) Enter the following commands:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java -y
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer -y
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default

3) Enjoy java 8 :)

Side note - Last package (oracle-java8-set-default) may not be necessary to install

heynnema
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