How to Install Java OpenJDK 8 on CentOS 7

The CentOS 7 repositories do not have java-1.8.0-openjdk packages yet. However, these have been released for CentOS 6. For our development workstations running CentOS 7, we have successfully installed the CentOS 6 openjdk packages. As root, create a new file in /etc/yum.repos.d called centos6.repo: [updates-centos-6] name=CentOS-6 – Updates baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=0 If you need to keep…
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