Install Java on Centos

INSTALL JAVA 

Download the latest JAVA  from  here or use the following command to download JAVA JDK

# wget --no-cookies \ --no-check-certificate \ --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" \ "https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u201-b09/42970487e3af4f5aa5bca3f542482c60/jdk-8u201-linux-x64.rpm" \ -O /tmp/jdk-8u201-linux-x64.rpm

once the JAVA package has been downloaded, install it using rpm as follows:

# rpm -Uvh /tmp/jdk-8u201-linux-x64.rpm

CONFIGURE JAVA

configure the newly installed JAVA package using alternatives as in:

# alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_201-amd64/jre/bin/java 20000 # alternatives --install /usr/bin/jar jar /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_201-amd64/bin/jar 20000 # alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_201-amd64/bin/javac 20000 # alternatives --install /usr/bin/javaws javaws /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_201-amd64/jre/bin/javaws 20000 # alternatives --set java /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_201-amd64/jre/bin/java # alternatives --set javaws /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_201-amd64/jre/bin/javaws # alternatives --set javac /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_201-amd64/bin/javac # alternatives --set jar /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_201-amd64/bin/jar

check the JAVA version running on your system:

# java -version