You should also have basic knoweldge of the command line.

This tutorial assume that you have a VPS, bare metal server, or as in our case, an OVHcloud Compute Instance running CentOS 7. In this tutorial you will learn how to install the Java Development Kit (JDK) on a CentOS 7 Linux distribution. To learn more about the full capabilities of the Java language refer to the official documentation. Its wide adoption over the past years makes it an unavoidable language in the development world. This is what you should see to signal a successful install.Java is one of the most famous programming languages in the world.

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.51-b03, mixed mode) OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_51-b16)

To verify installation, issue: java -version openjdk version '1.8.0_51' To install, issue: yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel Issue yum list *jdk* to get a list of what’s available: Available Packages So this is the alternative, read: supported way, of installing Java JDK 1.8. I usually download the rpm or source from and install it manually but this time around it just wouldn’t work.

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