AlmaLinux generally has Java installed. You can check whether java is installed with this command:

which -a java

It should return:

/usr/bin/java

Then, you can check the Java version with this command:

java -version

For AlmaLinux 9, it should return:

openjdk version "11.0.17" 2022-10-18 LTS
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (Red_Hat-11.0.17.0.8-2.el9_0) (build 11.0.17+8-LTS)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (Red_Hat-11.0.17.0.8-2.el9_0) (build 11.0.17+8-LTS, mixed mode, sharing)

Next, you check whether javac is installed. You can use the which command to determine whether it is installed. Generally, its not installed and you use this command to

sudo dnf search jdk | egrep -- '-17'

It should return:

Last metadata expiration check: 0:11:17 ago on Mon 19 Dec 2022 11:32:48 PM EST.
java-17-openjdk.x86_64 : OpenJDK 17 Runtime Environment
java-17-openjdk-demo.x86_64 …

While I previously blogged about installing Netbeans 8, some of my students would prefer to use the Eclipse IDE. This post shows how to install and configure Eclipse IDE, include the mysql-connector-java.jar, and write Java to access the MySQL.

You can download Eclipse IDE and then open it in Fedora’s Archive Manager. You can use the Archive Manager to Extract the Eclipse IDE to a directory of your choice. I opted to extract it into my student user’s home directory, which is /home/student.

After extracting the Eclipse IDE, you can check the contents of the eclipse directory with the following command:

ls -al eclipse

You should see the following: