Thursday 18 October 2018

Installing Java on my laptop

This is only really useful to Sanger users...

On my mac laptop, to install Java, I had to:
1) Go to the 'Applications' folder, and click on 'Managed Software Center'
2) Select 'Oracle Java JDK 8', and click install.
3) Click on 'Install requested' at top right. Then a 'checking for updates' screen appears. This seems to install Java.
4) In a xterm window on the Mac, I can then type a java command, e.g.: (to run a Java program called webin-cli-root-1.4.2.jar)
% java -jar webin-cli-root-1.4.2.jar
Runs fine!

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