How would one go about installing the LTS Java 11 JDK?

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How would one go about installing the LTS Java 11 JDK?

Post by georgelappies » 2018/05/19 11:00:33

Good day friends

First and foremost thanks to everyone involved for making this amazing OS.

Seeing that Java 11 will be released soon, and it will be a LTS release, what would be the safest way to install that on CentOS current.

A number of excellent features have been added to Java since the 1.8 OpenJDK release, so having the ability to install Java 11 from the official repos would be awesome.

Any info on this?

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Re: How would one go about installing the LTS Java 11 JDK?

Post by TrevorH » 2018/05/19 11:11:53

Seeing that Java 11 will be released soon, and it will be a LTS release, what would be the safest way to install that on CentOS current.
The safest way is to wait until Redhat add it to RHEL.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
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Re: How would one go about installing the LTS Java 11 JDK?

Post by georgelappies » 2018/05/19 11:32:46

Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

I was hoping that maybe there would be a non default testing repo one could add perhaps?

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Re: How would one go about installing the LTS Java 11 JDK?

Post by T_O » 2018/05/20 08:36:28

Still, if you need it for specific projects, it should be possible to put the JDK/JRE from Oracle's .tar.gz to some non-default folder and run it from there. You might have to adapt the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

I would not install it as the default JDK/JRE.

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