Aggregate Installation Tips
One of the reasons I am writing this blog, is to keep “log” for myself on how I resolved issues.
In this post I will describe how I installed several basic development tools on a Fedora OS. I want this laptop to be my workstation for out-of-work projects.
Almost everything in this post can be found elsewhere in the web. Actually, most of what I am writing here is from other links. However, this post is intended to aggregate several installations together.
If you’re new to Linux (or not an expert, as I am not), you can learn some basic stuff here.
How to install (yum), how to create from source code, how to setup environment variables and maybe other stuff.
First, we’ll start with how I installed Fedora.
Installing Fedora
I downloaded Fedora ISO from https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/. It is Gnome distribution. I then used http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ to create a self bootable USB. It’s very easy to use. I switched to KDE by running: sudo yum install @kde-desktop
Installing Java
Download the rpm package Oracle site.
# root su - # Install JDK in system rpm -Uvh /path/.../jdk-8u40-linux-i586.rpm # Use correct Java alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/latest/jre/bin/java 2000000 alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/java/latest/bin/javac 2000000 alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/java/latest/jre/bin/javaws 2000000 alternatives --install /usr/bin/jar jar /usr/java/latest/bin/jar 2000000 # Example how to swap javac # alternatives --config javac
Under /etc/profile.d/ , create a file (jdk_home.sh) with the following content:
# Put this file under /etc/profile.d export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/latest export PATH=$PATH:JAVA_HOME/bin
I used the following link, here’d how to install JDK http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2014/install-oracle-java-8-on-fedora-centos-rhel/
Installing Intellij
Location: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
# root su - # Create IntelliJ location mkdir -p /opt/idea # Untar installation tar -xvzf /path/.../ideaIC-14.1.tar.gz -C /opt/idea # Create link for latest IntelliJ ln -s /opt/idea/idea-IC-141.177.4/ /opt/idea/latest chmod -R +r /opt/idea
Check https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/basics-and-installation.html
After installation, you can go to /opt/idea/latest/bin and run idea.sh Once you run it, you will be prompt to create a desktop entry. You can create a command line launcher later on as well.
Installing eclipse
Location: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
su - # create eclipse location mkdir /opt/eclipse # Unzip it tar -xvzf /path/.../eclipse-java-luna-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz -C /opt/eclipse # create link ln -s /opt/eclipse/eclipse/ /opt/eclipse/latest # Permissions hmod -R +r /opt/eclipse/
Create executable /usr/bin/eclipse
#!/bin/sh # name it eclipse # put it in /usr/bin # chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse/latest" $ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*
Create Desktop Launcher
# create /usr/local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop # Paste the following [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Eclipse Comment=Eclipse Luna 4.4.2 Exec=eclipse Icon=/opt/eclipse/latest/icon.xpm Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Development;IDE; StartupNotify=true
See also http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/linux-install-eclipse-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/
Installing Maven
Download https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi
# root su - # installation location mkdir /opt/maven # unzip tar -zxvf /path/.../apache-maven-3.3.1-bin.tar.gz -C /opt/maven # link ln -s /opt/maven/apache-maven-3.3.1/ /opt/maven/latest
Setting maven environment
# put it in /etc/profile.d export M2_HOME=/opt/maven/latest export M2=$M2_HOME/bin export PATH=$M2:$PATH
Installing git
I wanted to have the latest git client. Using yum install did not make it, so I decided to install from source code. I found a great blog explaining how to do it. http://tecadmin.net/install-git-2-0-on-centos-rhel-fedora/
Note: in the compile part, he uses export to /etc/bashrc . Don’t do it. Instead create a file under /etc/profile.d
Installation commands
su - yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel yum install gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker yum remove git # Download source # check latest version in http://git-scm.com/downloads cd /usr/src wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-<latest-version>.tar.gz tar xzf git-<latest-version>.tar.gz # create git from source code cd git-<latest-version> make prefix=/opt/git all make prefix=/opt/git install
git Environment
# save under /etc/profile.d/git-env.sh export PATH=$PATH:/opt/git/bin
Create an ‘sh’ file under /etc/profile.d
| Reference: | Aggregate Installation Tips from our JCG partner Eyal Golan at the Learning and Improving as a Craftsman Developer blog. |
