Starting with Java and Node.js development on Ubuntu Linux

2015-07-09 00:00:00 +0000

by Paul Verest
Ubuntu is major Linux distribution (wikipedia article)
One should select LTS version, as for example Help is full only for LTS versions and Node.js packages are supported for LTS but not latest versions.

Installing Java JDK 8

There are many Java implementations for Ubuntu. Let's stick with Oracle JDK:
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/09/install-oracle-java-8-in-ubuntu-via-ppa.html

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Check what exact version you got:

java -version
javac -version  

See also https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-java-on-ubuntu-with-apt-get

Install Enide 2015 (Eclipse-based IDE)

Based on http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/06/install-latest-eclipse-ubuntu-14-04/

1. Download Enide for Linux, e.g. Enide-2015-7.
2. Extract to e.g. /opt/Eclipses/Enide-2015-7-linux-gtk-x64-20150706/
sudo nautilus ~/Downloads sudo nautilus /opt
3. Allow eclipse to be executable. From the /opt/Eclipses/Enide-2015-7-linux-gtk-x64-20150706/eclipse/ folder
   sudo chmod -R 7555 eclipse
4. Create shortcut
   sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/enide-2015-7.desktop

paste

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Enide-2015-7
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/Eclipses/Enide-2015-7-linux-gtk-x64-20150706/eclipse/eclipse
Terminal=false
Icon=/opt/Eclipses/Enide-2015-7-linux-gtk-x64-20150706/eclipse/icon.xpm
Comment=Enide 2015-7 (Eclipse 4.5 Mars-based)
NoDisplay=false
Categories=Development;IDE;
Name[en]=Enide-2015-7

See also http://askubuntu.com/questions/337281/installing-eclipse-kepler

Installing Node.js

https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-node-js-on-an-ubuntu-14-04-server

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install npm

Or the latest using https://github.com/nodesource/distributions

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs  

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