Aggregate Installation Tips

One of the reasons I am writing this blog, is to keep “log” for myself on how I resolved issues.

In this post I will describe how I installed several basic development tools on a Fedora OS.
I want this laptop to be my workstation for out-of-work projects.

Almost everything in this post can be found elsewhere in the web.
Actually, most of what I am writing here is from other links.

However, this post is intended to aggregate several installations together.

If you’re new to Linux (or not an expert, as I am not), you can learn some basic stuff here.
How to install (yum), how to create from source code, how to setup environment variables and maybe other stuff.

First, we’ll start with how I installed Fedora.

Installing Fedora

I downloaded Fedora ISO from https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/.
It is Gnome distribution.
I then used http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ to create a self bootable USB. It’s very easy to use.
I switched to KDE by running: sudo yum install @kde-desktop

Installing Java

Download the rpm package Oracle site.

	# root
	su -

	# Install JDK in system
	rpm -Uvh /path/.../jdk-8u40-linux-i586.rpm

	# Use correct Java
	alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/latest/jre/bin/java 2000000
	alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/java/latest/bin/javac 2000000
	alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/java/latest/jre/bin/javaws 2000000
	alternatives --install /usr/bin/jar jar /usr/java/latest/bin/jar 2000000

	# Example how to swap javac
	# alternatives --config javac

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Under /etc/profile.d/ , create a file (jdk_home.sh) with the following content:

	# Put this file under /etc/profile.d

	export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/latest
	export PATH=$PATH:JAVA_HOME/bin

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I used the following link, here’d how to install JDK
http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2014/install-oracle-java-8-on-fedora-centos-rhel/

Installing Intellij

Location: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/

	# root
	su -

	# Create IntelliJ location
	mkdir -p /opt/idea

	# Untar installation
	tar -xvzf /path/.../ideaIC-14.1.tar.gz -C /opt/idea

	# Create link for latest IntelliJ
	ln -s /opt/idea/idea-IC-141.177.4/ /opt/idea/latest

	chmod -R +r /opt/idea

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Check https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/basics-and-installation.html

After installation, you can go to /opt/idea/latest/bin and run idea.sh
Once you run it, you will be prompt to create a desktop entry.
You can create a command line launcher later on as well.

Installing eclipse

Location: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

	su -

	# create eclipse location
	mkdir /opt/eclipse

	# Unzip it
	tar -xvzf /path/.../eclipse-java-luna-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz -C /opt/eclipse

	# create link
	ln -s /opt/eclipse/eclipse/ /opt/eclipse/latest

	# Permissions
	hmod -R +r /opt/eclipse/

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Create executable /usr/bin/eclipse

	#!/bin/sh
	# name it eclipse
	# put it in /usr/bin
	# chmod 755 /usr/bin/eclipse

	export ECLIPSE_HOME="/opt/eclipse/latest"
	$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

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Create Desktop Launcher

	# create /usr/local/share/applications/eclipse.desktop
	# Paste the following

	[Desktop Entry]
	Encoding=UTF-8
	Name=Eclipse
	Comment=Eclipse Luna 4.4.2
	Exec=eclipse
	Icon=/opt/eclipse/latest/icon.xpm
	Terminal=false
	Type=Application
	Categories=Development;IDE;
	StartupNotify=true

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Installing Maven

Download https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

	# root
	su -

	# installation location
	mkdir /opt/maven

	# unzip
	tar -zxvf /path/.../apache-maven-3.3.1-bin.tar.gz -C /opt/maven

	# link
	ln -s /opt/maven/apache-maven-3.3.1/ /opt/maven/latest

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Setting maven environment

	# put it in /etc/profile.d
	export M2_HOME=/opt/maven/latest
	export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
	export PATH=$M2:$PATH

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Installing git

I wanted to have the latest git client.
Using yum install did not make it, so I decided to install from source code.
I found a great blog explaining how to do it.
http://tecadmin.net/install-git-2-0-on-centos-rhel-fedora/
Note: in the compile part, he uses export to /etc/bashrc .
Don’t do it. Instead create a file under /etc/profile.d
Installation commands

	su -

	yum install curl-devel expat-devel gettext-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel
	yum install gcc perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker

	yum remove git

	# Download source
	# check latest version in http://git-scm.com/downloads
	cd /usr/src
	wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-<latest-version>.tar.gz
	tar xzf git-<latest-version>.tar.gz

	# create git from source code
	cd git-<latest-version>
	make prefix=/opt/git all
	make prefix=/opt/git install