This tutorial is for the beginner who wants to install jdk in their Linux operating system.The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a software development environment for developing Java applications and applets. Furthermore,It includes the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), an interpreter (Java), a compiler (javac), an archiver (jar), a documentation generator (Javadoc) and other tools needed in Java development.
Here are the steps to install java development kit.
Step 1:
Download jdk tar file of your required version(1.7,1.8)from the oracle website: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html
Step 2:
After that, untar tar file using command tar -xvzf <tar file name>. As as result, you will get log and information in terminal as shown in figure below.
Step 3:
Edit a .bashrc file located in home directory in your system. After that set up JDK path with the location of untar file from above step as below:
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.8.0_221 ( this is the path of your jdk location extracted from tar file)
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
Step 4:
Then save the .bashrc file and enter the command bash. After that open new linux terminal tab and enter the command java -version. Finally, check your JDK information using command ‘java -version’ as shown in below figure.
In conclusion, you need JDK to install other different software and tools in Ubuntu. For instance, Hadoop, Spark and so on,
