Installing Scala on CentOS

Scala files are now here http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/

wget http://www.scala-lang.org/files/archive/scala-2.10.1.tgz tar xvf scala-2.10.1.tgz sudo mv scala-2.10.1 /usr/lib sudo ln -s /usr/lib/scala-2.10.1 /usr/lib/scala export PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/scala/bin scala -version

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5 thoughts on “Installing Scala on CentOS”

Bcon says:

February 1, 2017 at 10:00 am

I’m confused as to why you guide suggests installing scala into the /usr/lib folder (libraries folder). Why wouldn’t you put it in /opt or /usr/local?

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1. Ajay Ohri says:
  
  February 3, 2017 at 6:53 am
  
  the post is historic and now obsolete
  
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J. Pensay says:

April 30, 2016 at 11:31 pm

As of April 2016 you download with
wget http://downloads.lightbend.com/scala/2.11.8/scala-2.11.8.tgz
Thanks for the helpful post

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Ritika says:

November 19, 2015 at 11:42 pm

Thanks for these commands. I could successfully install Scala.

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