{"id":887,"date":"2018-10-25T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicktailor.com\/?p=887"},"modified":"2022-10-21T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T12:07:33","slug":"how-to-update-java-on-centos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/how-to-update-java-on-centos\/","title":{"rendered":"How to update java on centos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, check your current\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Java<\/span>\u00a0version with this command:<\/p>\n<pre><code><span class=\"il\">java<\/span> -version\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Example:<\/p>\n<pre><code>$ <span class=\"il\">java<\/span> -version\r\n<span class=\"il\">java<\/span> version \"1.8.0_181\"\r\n<span class=\"il\">Java<\/span>(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_181-b13)\r\n<span class=\"il\">Java<\/span> HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.181-b13, mixed mode)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>If your installed version is not\u00a0<code><span class=\"il\">Java<\/span> 8 <span class=\"il\">update<\/span> 181<\/code>, then you could follow the step in order to download the latest\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Java<\/span>\u00a0version and install it:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Java<\/span>\u00a0JRE package for RPM-based distributions:\n<pre><code>curl -Lo jre-8-linux-x64.rpm --header \"Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-<wbr \/>securebackup-cookie\" \"<a href=\"https:\/\/download.oracle.com\/otn-pub\/java\/jdk\/8u181-b13\/96a7b8442fe848ef90c96a2fad6ed6d1\/jre-8u181-linux-x64.rpm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/download.oracle.com\/otn-pub\/java\/jdk\/8u181-b13\/96a7b8442fe848ef90c96a2fad6ed6d1\/jre-8u181-linux-x64.rpm&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1540531205489000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGHtHUD_hufeuRG-v4uTkSkzEMGXw\">https:\/\/download.oracle.com\/<wbr \/>otn-pub\/<span class=\"il\">java<\/span>\/jdk\/8u181-b13\/<wbr \/>96a7b8442fe848ef90c96a2fad6ed6<wbr \/>d1\/jre-8u181-linux-x64.rpm<\/a>\"\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Check that the package was successfully downloaded:\n<pre><code>rpm -qlp jre-8-linux-x64.rpm &gt; \/dev\/null 2&gt;&amp;1 &amp;&amp; echo \"<span class=\"il\">Java<\/span> package downloaded successfully\" || echo \"<span class=\"il\">Java<\/span> package did not download successfully\"\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Install the package using\u00a0<code>yum<\/code>:\n<pre><code>yum -y install jre-8-linux-x64.rpm\r\nrm -f jre-8-linux-x64.rpm\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, check your current\u00a0Java\u00a0version with this command: java -version Example: $ java -version java version &#8220;1.8.0_181&#8221; Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_181-b13) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.181-b13, mixed mode) If your installed version is not\u00a0Java 8 update 181, then you could follow the step in order to download the latest\u00a0Java\u00a0version and install it: Download the\u00a0Java\u00a0JRE package<a href=\"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/how-to-update-java-on-centos\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,59,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centos","category-java","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicktailor.com\/tech-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}