

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.5+10-post-Raspbian-1deb10u1) If you are running Raspbian Buster, you should get a result similar to the one below. java -versionĪll this command does is get the Java Runtime to print out its version. To test Java, all we need to do is run the following command on the Raspberry Pi. Now that we have installed Java, let’s go ahead and quickly run it to make sure everything is working. You can install Java to Raspbian by running the following command. We are using the package default-jdk as this will always point to the latest available version of the JDK for Raspbian. In this guide, you will be installing OpenJDK 11 as it is the latest version of Java available for Raspbian Buster. Once the update process has completed, we can proceed to install the latest available version of Java to our Raspberry Pi. The update process can take some time if you have a slow network connection, or there is a lot of packages to update.Ģ. To update all existing packages, go ahead, and run the following two commands. Before we go ahead and install Java we need first to ensure that everything is up to date. While we tested this Java installation tutorial on Raspbian Buster, this should also work for both older and newer versions of Raspbian.ġ. Here is all the equipment that we recommend for this Raspberry Pi Java tutorial. We use Java in our Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server tutorial as it is required for the software to work. If you only install the JRE, then you will only be able to run pre-compiled programs. The JDK comes with the JRE but will also allow you to compile your own Java programs as well. In this guide, we will be showing you how to install the JDK to your Raspberry Pi. There is the JDK, which stands for “ Java Development Kit” and the JRE, which stands for “ Java Runtime Environment”.

There are two possible flavors of Java that you can install. It is also easily obtainable through the Raspbian repository. The reason for this is that the OpenJDK version of Java is more up to date for ARM-based systems such as the Raspberry Pi. In this tutorial, we will be installing the OpenJDK version of Java and not the one provided by Oracle. The Java language is the language that the popular game Minecraft is built with. Java is a popular and powerful programming language that has a wide range of uses.
