How to Install ActiveMQ on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Easy Guide

Quick Start ActiveMQ for Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety

How to Install ActiveMQ on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak GNU/Linux desktop/server.

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

Some ActiveMQ Features are:

• 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

1. First, open a Terminal shell emulator window
   Ctrl+Alt+t on desktop
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

   
   Or LogIn into Shell…

2. Download Apache ActiveMQ for Linux.

   ActiveMQ Linux tar.gz

   Apache Activemq

3. Then Extract the Archive into /tmp/
   With the Archive Manager (If needed Double-Click on file)

   

   Or from Shell:

   tar xvzf ~/Downloads/apache-activemq*.tar.gz -C /tmp

4. How to Install Required Oracle Java JDK on Ubuntu

   Install Oracle JDK 8+ for Ubuntu

   SetUp Oracle JDK on Ubuntu.

   To check your current JDK version:

   javac --version && java -XshowSettings:properties -version 2>&1 | grep 'java.vendor'

   If it’s the official Oracle JDK, the output will include: java.vendor = Oracle Corporation.

5. Finally, to Install it 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

   Apache ActiveMQ Quick Start