This tutorial covers the installation of the Java SE (Standard Edition) edition.
Java is distributed in three different editions, Standard Edition (SE), Enterprise Edition (EE), and Micro Edition (ME). Prerequisites #īefore continuing with this tutorial, make sure you are logged in as a user with sudo privileges The same instructions apply for Ubuntu 16.04 and any Ubuntu-based distribution, including Kubuntu, Linux Mint and Elementary OS. This tutorial describes how to install various versions of OpenJDK as well as Oracle Java on Ubuntu 18.04.
Java is one of the most popular programming languages in the world, used for building different types of cross-platform applications.