In this guide, we are going to learn how to install Oracle Java 11 on Fedora 29\/CentOS 7. There are different flavors of Java on which different applications can run on. For example, Oracle Java SE which is the official version of Java from Oracle and is not opensource. The other flavour is OpenJDK, an opensource edition of Java. This version is included on Fedora repos by default.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To install Oracle Java 11 on Fedora 29 or CentOS 7, follow through this guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Navigate to Oracle Java 11 downloads page<\/a>, accept the license and download the tar.gz archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Run the command below to create a directory where Java 11 files will reside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you have downloaded the tar.gz archive, unpack it to Java directory created above by running the command below;<\/p>\n\n\n\n This will extract the Java 11 files under, \/usr\/java\/jdk-11.0.3\/<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Run the commands below to define Java 11 default locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The installation in other words is done. To verify the installed version, log out of the system and login again. After that run the command below;<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good stuff, isn’t?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now that we got Java 11 installed, you can create the Java home environment variable under the \/etc\/environment<\/strong> configuration file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Verify environment variable setting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You are done with installation of Oracle Java 11 on Fedora 29\/CentOS 7. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can check our guides on Oracle Java 12 by following the links below;<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this guide, we are going to learn how to install Oracle Java 11 on Fedora 29\/CentOS 7. There are different flavors of Java on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,795],"tags":[88,289,5084,918,919],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","category-java","tag-centos-7","tag-fedora-29","tag-install-oracle-java-11-on-fedora-29-centos-7","tag-java-11","tag-oracle-java-11","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21136,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions\/21136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Create Java Directory<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
mkdir \/usr\/java<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nUnpacking the Java 11 Archive<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
tar xzf jdk-11.0.3_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz -C \/usr\/java<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nSet Java 11 Default Location<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
update-alternatives --install \"\/usr\/bin\/java\" \"java\" \"\/usr\/java\/jdk-11.0.3\/bin\/java\" 0
update-alternatives --install \"\/usr\/bin\/javac\" \"javac\" \"\/usr\/java\/jdk-11.0.3\/bin\/javac\" 0
update-alternatives --install \"\/usr\/bin\/jar\" \"jar\" \"\/usr\/java\/jdk-11.0.3\/bin\/jar\" 0
update-alternatives --set java \/usr\/java\/jdk-11.0.3\/bin\/java
update-alternatives --set javac \/usr\/java\/jdk-11.0.3\/bin\/javac
update-alternatives --set jar \/usr\/java\/jdk-11.0.3\/bin\/jar<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nVerify Java Installation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
java --version
java 11.0.3 2019-04-16 LTS
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 18.9 (build 11.0.3+12-LTS)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 18.9 (build 11.0.3+12-LTS, mixed mode)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nCreate JAVA_HOME Environment Variable<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
echo 'JAVA_HOME=\"\/usr\/java\/jdk-11.0.3\"' >> \/etc\/environment
source \/etc\/environment<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\necho $JAVA_HOME
\/usr\/java\/jdk-11.0.3<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n