Brian Douglas

This is a quick helper for future Brian. Here are the commands to install a JDK from a tar file on Debian.

tar -xvf jdk.tar.gz

sudo mkdir -p /opt/java
sudo mv jdk /opt/java/

echo "export JAVA_HOME="/opt/java/jdk" >> ~/.profile
echo "export PATH=\"$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH\"" >> ~/.profile

source ~/.profile

java --version
javac --version
echo $JAVA_HOME