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Currently, I’m learning test automation. The tools I’m using are: Java Development Kit(JDK), Apache Maven, IntelliJ IDE and JUnit. I have easly installed them for MS Windows but installation for Ubuntu linux was a little challenging for me, that’s why I decided to write this article. I really hope the article will be helpful for those, who wants to use those tools in Ubuntu linux. At least you can find all you need here, one source makes it easier 🙂 The article is good for Ubuntu 14.04.3 and actually, it should be good for 15.10 with a little difference in JDK installation. (JDK 8 is available from Ubuntu Software Center in Ubuntu 15.10). Let’s start!

Java SDK installation.

First of all we need to install Java Development Kit. I was thinking to use Ubuntu software center for this installation, but OpenJDK Java 7 Runtime is the latest version available there. According to Oracle current version is Java SE Development Kit 8u66, I actually like to use latest versions, and I’m going to use that one for installation here. For this installation we need to add PPA repository from webupd8team and install JDK from there. So, let’s open our Terminal and run these commands:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java 
$ sudo apt-get update 
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

We should check which version of Java we have installed now. Run this command:

$ javac -version

That command returned the following message:

javac 1.8.0_66

Which is a good sign though 🙂 I expected something like that 🙂 We’ve got our Java Development Kit installed!
As I mentioned in the beginning, in Ubuntu 15.10 this installation can be done from Ubuntu Software Center which is easier.

The next our step is going to be:

 

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