Installing Oracle JDK for Oracle Data Integrator install

Well, in this blog I would be talking about doing an install of Oracle JDK for the ODI install. Well, standard disclaimers apply since doing installs on Linux are a lot more fun because of permission issues and tablespaces.

Now, the first thing I did was download all the installables for the install. I have downloaded the JDK 1.8 and also the ODI installable jar files as shown in the below snapshot.

The below snapshot shows the OpenJDK version that is present on my Linux box.

The next snapshot shows me installing the Oracle JDK using the rpm command. 

The -i flag is used to indicate that we are doing an install of the JDK rpm.

The next snapshot shows the JDK being installed successfully.

Now, the Linux environment have two JDK. One of them is the OpenJDK and the other one is the Oracle JDK. We will now set the default JDK in the environment to be that of Oracle JDK. This is done using the command as shown in the below snapshot. 

Observe that in the above snapshot, the environment asks me which JDK I want to set as default. I type in 2 and hit the enter key to indicate that I want to update my JDK environment. 

The next snapshot shows me the JDK updated to point to the Oracle JDK replacing the OpenJDK.

Observe that the install of JDK is done using the root privileges.

In my next blog, I will show how to do the Oracle Data Integrator install on Linux. This was much more fun. Stay tuned..