From f61eee7fa964bbbc7f19cce6aad811c749cd069b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: s-andrews Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 14:07:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated install notes --- INSTALL.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/INSTALL.txt b/INSTALL.txt index c1e7bbf..34177ea 100644 --- a/INSTALL.txt +++ b/INSTALL.txt @@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ and those from the adoptOpenJDK project (https://adoptopenjdk.net/). You need t download and install a suitable 64-bit JRE and make sure that the java application is in your path (most installers will take care of this for you). +On linux most distributions will have java installed already so you might not need to +do anything. If java isn't installed then you can add it by doing: + +Ubuntu / Mint: sudo apt install default-jre + +CentOS / Redhat: sudo yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk + You can check whether java is installed by opening the 'cmd' program on windows, or any shell on linux and typing: