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Installing Java

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Installing Java

- [Instructor] To make things easier to read, I'll be using a program called commander, C-M-D-E-R, instead of PowerShell. It just has a configurable color scheme. It's a little easier to work with. But you can do everything I'm going to do within PowerShell. Or if you're on a Mac you can use Terminal. Or you can use another terminal application if you're on Linux. I've copied the Vagrantfile into a folder on my desktop called Tomcat. And I'm in that folder right now. And I'll just use the command, vagrant up. Now that that's up and running, let me clear my screen. And we can log into it with the command, vagrant ssh. And now we're logged into our Ubuntu box. Now we'll need to install Java so that we can install Tomcat. There are a couple of options for this. As I said earlier, you can install either just the jre, which is what you need to run Java-based applications, or you can install the full jdk, which includes a lot more development tools. We're running Ubuntu 16.04 so you can…

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