Digitizing Medieval Archives
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the Course
  • Assignments
  • Lead a seminar
  • Readings
  • Week 1 & 2 - Setting Up
    • Signing Up
    • Using Twitter
    • Twitter Strategies
    • Twitter Abbreviations
  • Week 3 - Omeka
    • Dublin Core
  • Week 4 - Github
    • Markdown
    • Github
    • Turning Github into a website
    • Markdown II (Optional)
  • Week 5 - Writing Supports
    • Your first transcription
    • Getting prepared for Transkribus
  • Week 6 - Palæography
    • Distinguishing Late Medieval Scripts
    • Handwriting Analysis Tools
    • Installing Medieval Unicode
    • IRL Abbreviations
  • Week 7 - Abbreviations
    • Transcribing with Transkribus
    • Transcribing
    • Java 8
  • Week 8 - Codicology
    • Codicological Spreadsheet
  • Week 9 - Liturgical Genres
    • Medieval Liturgy - Basic Bibliography
  • Week 10 - Cataloguing
    • Template for Folio Cataloguing
  • Week 11 - Workday
  • Week 12 - Whetting your Digital Appetite
  • Week 13 - The Theory of the Digital
    • Github Project Boards
  • Week 14 - The Promise of DH
    • Criteria for Evaluating DH Projects
  • Week 15 - Capturing Manuscripts
    • How to take photos of documents
    • Image File Formats
  • Week 16 - IIIF
    • Our IIIF Images
    • Understanding IIIF Image Presentation
    • Using IIIF Manifests
  • Week 17 - IIIF Annotations
    • Annotations in Mirador
    • Annotations with Transkribus
  • Week 18 - Online Exhibits
  • Week 19 - TEI
    • Look at a TEI folio description
    • Digital Latin Library
    • TEI export from Transkribus
  • Week 20 - Accessibility and Longevity
  • Week 21 - Work
  • Week 22 - Work
  • Week 23 - Presentations I
  • Week 24 - Presentations II
  • Week 25 - End of the Line
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Java 8

Installing Java 8 on your machine

Note: This tutorial is made for Linux users because they are the most likely to not have the correct version of Java pre-installed. If you are not a Linux user but are still facing issues and/or are uncomfortable using the Command Line/Terminal please ask for help.

Open the terminal and check to see which version of Java is installed:

$ java -version

If the resulting output looks like this: openjdk version "1.8.0_171" Then the correct version of Java is installed and you do not need to make additional changes. If you see this output, but are still facing issues, go here.

In the rare case that Java is not currently installed on your machine, you will see the following output: Command 'java' not found

You will need to install OpenJDK: $ sudo apt install default-jre

Install Java 8 by executing the following command:

$ sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk

Check to see if the Java 8 was installed correctly:

$ java -version

The resulting should look like this: openjdk version "1.8.0_171"

You now have Java 8 installed and running.

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