How to install SBT on CentOS 7

How to install SBT on CentOS 7

SBT aka Simple Build Tool is used to build Scala applications. It packages Scala applications in the jar file. SBT can be installed on Linux Mac and Windows platform. In this tutorial, we will discuss on how to install SBT on CentOS 7. In order to make SBT work properly we will need java and scala installed on the system first.

Install Java

yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel -y

Check Java Version:

java -version

[root@dev-server ~]# java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_242"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_242-b08)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.242-b08, mixed mode)
[root@dev-server ~]#

Install Scala

wget http://downloads.lightbend.com/scala/2.11.8/scala-2.11.8.rpm

yum install scala-2.11.8.rpm 

Install SBT

curl https://bintray.com/sbt/rpm/rpm |  tee /etc/yum.repos.d/bintray-sbt-rpm.repo
yum install sbt

Using SBT to package application

To package your application you can go to that folder and then run the package command

sbt package