Wefrusus, Use the generic linux instructions (which I can't seem to find on the website anymore, so I've copied below from the last install I did on this machine) this was on a chromebook running gallium so should work fine for a Debian install too. I've used this method as long as I can remember on several machines, mostly running gentoo. You only need to have a valid reasonably current java environment, although I have found the best performance with the latest stable Oracle builds. Anyway, setup...
Dimity, Re: pre08 pre09 - running on Linux 4.1.2-gentoo, Oracle JDK 1.8.0.66; fails...