Installing the Oracle JDK on Fedora

Had to learn this one from this site.

In my use case I only want to compile and run Hadoop application so I have not completed all the steps for the browser setup.

Short version:

1. Download the JDK of your choice; I picked 1.7.0_51
2. sudo rpm -Uvh /tmp/jdk-7u51-linux-x64.rpm
3. sudo alternatives –install /usr/bin/java java /usr/java/latest/bin/java 200000
4. sudo alternatives –install /usr/bin/javac javac /usr/java/latest/bin/javac 200000
5. sudo alternatives –install /usr/bin/jar jar /usr/java/latest/bin/jar 200000
6. sudo alternatives –config java

The last step was to activate the new installation I added. I selected option 2.

As simple as that and running java -version shows me the Oracle JVM version.