diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ff024c1..f9f48c4 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
  javahelper,
  ant,
  ant-optional,
- default-jdk,
+ openjdk-8-jdk,
  libjinput-java,
  libxrandr-dev,
  libxxf86vm-dev,
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 161e70b..6e5a0ef 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 TAR     := ../$(NAME)_$(VERSION).orig.tar.gz
 TARDFSG := ../$(NAME)_$(VERSION)+dfsg.orig.tar.gz
 
-export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java
+export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64
 export PATH:=$(JAVA_HOME)/bin:$(PATH)
 
 # NOTE: jutils is explicitly included here (without a depends in our control