How to Install Apache ActiveMQ on Linux Mint 16 Petra 32-64bit Linux Easy Guide

May 28, 2014 | By the+gnu+linux+evangelist.

ActiveMQ Quick Start for Linux Mint

The Tutorial shows you How to Install and Getting-Started with Apache ActiveMQ for JMS on Linux Mint 16 Petra i386/amd64 Mate/Cinnamon/KDE/Xfce Desktop.

As Pre-Requisite for Apache ActiveMQ is the Oracle Java SE JDK 8+ Installation Linux Mint.

Some ActiveMQ Framework Features:

  • Fully JMS Compliant
  • Connectivity (Wide range of Connectivity Options with protocols: Http/s, IP multicast, STOMP, TCP, UDP, XMPP)
  • Pluggable persistence and security
  • Building messaging applications with Java
  • Integration with application servers (Apache Tomcat, Jetty, Apache Geronimo, JBoss)
  • Client APIs (C/C++, .NET,Perl,Python,Ruby and more)
  • Broker clustering (Many ActiveMQ brokers can work together as a network of brokers for scalability purposes)
  • Dramatically simplified administration
Getting-Started with ActiveMQ on Linux Mint 16 Petra - Featured
  1. Download Apache ActiveMQ for Linux.

    ActiveMQ Linux tar.gz
  2. Open a Command Line Terminal Window
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    Quick-Start with Apache Maven on Linux Mint 16 Petra - Open Terminal
  3. Double-Click on Archive and Extract into /tmp.


    Or from Shell:

    tar xvzf apache-activemq*.tar.gz -C /tmp/
  4. How to Install Recommended Oracle Java JDK on Linux Mint

    Installing Oracle JDK for Mint Debian
  5. Relocate Apache ActiveMQ Folder.

    sudo su -c "mv /tmp/apache-activemq* /opt/"

    Set the SuperUser as owner with:

    sudo su -c "chown -R root:root /opt/apache-activemq*"
  6. Apache ActiveMQ Quick Start Guide on Linux.

    ActiveMQ Quick Start

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