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Latest revision as of 20:40, 28 March 2018

Installation

Install Oracle JDK 9 (considered stable in 3/2018)

su -
add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
apt-get update
apt-get install oracle-java9-installer
emacs /etc/environment
 JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-9-oracle"

There was reorganization of some xml parsers from/to EE, from what I was told, so you might need to stick with Java 8:

apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

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 === Installation ===
-Install Oracle JDK 8 (9 is scheduled for release in 2016)
+[http://www.webupd8.org/2015/02/install-oracle-java-9-in-ubuntu-linux.html Install Oracle JDK 9] (considered stable in 3/2018)
   su -
   add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
   apt-get update
+ apt-get install oracle-java9-installer
+ emacs /etc/environment
+  JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-9-oracle"
+There was reorganization of some xml parsers from/to EE, from what I was told, so you might need to stick with Java 8:
   apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
- apt-get install oracle-java8-set-default
- ctrl-D (back to user)
- update-alternatives --config java # make note of path
- update-alternatives --config javac # make note of path
- sudo subl /etc/environment
- JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre/bin/java" # actually, use the path from above, of course