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Installation instructions for JabRef 4.x not up to date for Ubuntu 20.04 #6341

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Recently Ubuntu 20.04 was released.
I upgraded my system and tried to install JabRef. Installation of JabRef 5 works without any problems. However, due to its high memory footprint and missing features I'd like to install JabRef 4.3 as an independent jar file.

I followed the instructions at: https://docs.jabref.org/general/installation#jabref-4-x
but they seem to be outdated.

  1. I didn't manage to install Oracle Java 8 since the refered ppa is not maintained any more (ppa:webupd8team/java)
  2. I did manage to install Open JDK for Java 8, but installing openjfx did not work the way described.
    "sudo apt install openjfx=8u161-b12-1ubuntu2 libopenjfx-jni=8u161-b12-1ubuntu2 libopenjfx-java=8u161-b12-1ubuntu2"
    there is not such package.

If there is a solution, I would like to update the docs.

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