Article : How to Install Java SDK on CentOS

Lately at work I’m being occupied preparing the “golden” node of a 14 machines pool of CentOS servers to be cloned and I’ve found myself in the situation of having to install Java on this Red Hat derived Linux distribution.

Unfortunately, even if Sun has released the whole Java ambaradan with a free software licence, this has happened too late to permit to the CentOS project (but also other distribution) the inclusion of the relative packages in their 5th release. This will change when the CentOS 6 will be released.

So, to correctly install Java (either the Runtime Environment or the Software Development Kit) is needed to follow the instructions given to us by the community on the How To Install Java on CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 page published on the official wiki.

You’ll just have to be a bit cautious and pay attention to these simple points..

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