How-to Install ActiveMQ on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Easy Guide

June 26th, 2017 by thelinuxevangelist

Hello Ubuntu User! This Tutorial Shows You Step-by-step How-to Install ActiveMQ on Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak 32/64-bit GNU/Linux Desktop/Server.

As Pre-Requisite for Apache ActiveMQ is the Oracle Java SE JDK 7+ 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

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

Or LogIn into Shell…
Download Apache ActiveMQ for Linux:

ActiveMQ Linux tar.gz

Apache Activemq
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
```
How-to Install Required Oracle Java JDK on Ubuntu:

Install Oracle JDK 7+ for Ubuntu

SetUp Oracle Jdk on Ubuntu.

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*"

Apache ActiveMQ Quick-Start Guide on Linux:

ActiveMQ Quick-Start

Apache ActiveMQ Quick-Start.