As I mentioned in my previous post Thinking of moving from Windows to Linux? I am moving from Windows to Linux. Setting up my development environment is a bit tedious because I have to hunt down the applications and execute various commands to setup. So I thought of make a note of them in a post so that it will be easier for me next time.
I am using Ubuntu/LinuxMint system so I am using apt-get to install, if you are using Fedora/CentOS you can use yum/dnf.
The very first thing I do after installing Linux is updating the system and in case I am working on VirtualBox VM installing VirtualBox Guest Additions.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-x11
Setting up Java Development Environment
Some Linux distros come with OpenJDK by default. You may want to remove OpenJDK first and install Oracle JDK.
sudo apt-get purge openjdk-* sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java sudo apt-get update
To install Java 7
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
To install Java 8
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
If you want to set JAVA_HOME environment variable for a particular user then you can add JAVA_HOME in ~/.bash_profile or if you want to setup for all the users globally then you can add it to /etc/profile file.
> vi ~/.bash_profile
or
vi /etc/profile
Append the following to the file:
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
>source ~/.bash_profile
or
source /etc/profile
After installing JDK you may want to download your favorite IDE from the following locations:
- http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
- https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
- http://tools.jboss.org/downloads/devstudio/index.html
- https://netbeans.org/downloads/
- https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
Most of the times I work with either Tomcat or JBoss/Wildfly servers. You cand ownload them from the following locations:
To install build tools like Ant or Maven
> sudo apt-get install ant
> sudo apt-get install maven
We can install various softwares like Groovy,Grails , Gradle etc you can use SDKMan (http://sdkman.io/) which was previously known as GVM.
> curl -s http://get.sdkman.io | bash > source "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh" > sdk version > sdk install groovy > sdk install grails > sdk install gradle
Install MySQL server
You can install MySQL server and MySQL Workbench from Ubuntu Software Center.
But if you prefer commandline installation
> sudo apt-get install mysql-server > sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench
Installing NodeJS
Installing NodeJS become a little bit complicated because it is going through some changes(nodejs, nodejs-legacy, io.js etc).
You can install latest NodeJS using following commands:
> sudo apt-get install curl > curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo bash - > sudo apt-get install nodejs
For further details refer
Install yeoman and generators
Yeoman (http://yeoman.io/) makes it easy to develop front-end applications by automating various tasks using bower, grunt or gulp.
Install yeoman
sudo npm install -g yo bower grunt-cli gulp
Install various generators
> sudo npm install -g generator-webapp > sudo npm install -g generator-angular > sudo npm install -g generator-jhipster > sudo npm install -g generator-meanjs > sudo npm install -g cordova ionic
Installing Ruby and RubyOnRails
You may be using Ruby or tools that depends on Ruby like OpenShift commandline tools, Jekyll etc.
You can find the very detailed instructions on how to install Ruby/RubyOnRails at https://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/15.04
Just for the sake of quick reference I am repeating the steps here:
> sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties libffi-dev
> cd > git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv > echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc > echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc > exec $SHELL
> git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build > echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc > exec $SHELL
> git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv-gem-rehash.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/rbenv-gem-rehash
> rbenv install 2.2.3 > rbenv global 2.2.3 > ruby -v
> echo "gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc" > ~/.gemrc > gem install bundler
> gem install rails -v 4.2.4
Installing Jekyll
Jekyll (https://jekyllrb.com) is a static site generator which you can use to generate your site and host it on github.
> gem install jekyll
Test drive Jekyll
> jekyll new myblog > cd myblog > jekyll serve
Hope these installation instructions helps!!
| Reference: | My Development Environment Setup on Linux from our JCG partner Siva Reddy at the My Experiments on Technology blog. |
What’s the reasoning behind removing OpenJDK in favour of Oracle’s?
I almost always have to use Oracle JDK for my official projects. Just to have the same environment on my personal laptops also I have removed Open JDK and installed Oracle JDK. Apart from that there is no specific reason for it.
I hope if anyone is fine to use Open JDK they can continue to use.
How much memory did you need to assign to your linux vm to support java spring development running docker containers?
Please update to year 2020.
e. g.
https://linuxconcept.com/how-to-install-eclipse-ide-on-ubuntu-20-04-linux/