Install Scala on Ubuntu
Posted on
November 26, 2010
by
sumwai
To install Scala on Ubuntu, you get it either using
sudo apt-get install scala
or if you want to get the latest stable Scala release, here are the steps:
First, install Sun Java
Enable Multiverse repository, see here.
Install the Sun Java packages, choose it to be the default.
Second, install Scala
Download the latest Scala package, on scala-lang.org.
wget http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads/distrib/files/scala-2.8.1.final.tgz
Uncompress it to /opt/
tar -C /opt/ -xvzf scala-2.8.1.final.tgz
Add Scala to your $PATH by adding this line to .profile inside your home directory
PATH="$PATH:/opt/scala-2.8.1.final/bin"
Restart Ubuntu, start a terminal window and type to see you have successfully installed it.
scala -version