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Linux: Download and set up Kafka in PATH

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Linux: Download and set up Kafka in PATH

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- [Stephane] Hi, this is Stefan from Conduktor, and in this lecture we're going to set up the Kafka binaries on Linux. So, even if you've used Conduktor and Docker to start Kafka, you need to set up the Kafka binaries on your Linux machine because we're going to use it to start running the Kafka CLI commands. So, first we'll install Java JDK version 21. Then we'll download Apache Kafka from this URL. Then we'll extract the content on Linux and set up the path environment variables for easy access to the Kafka binaries. So, let's get started. Okay, so let's go ahead and type install Amazon Corretto. We scroll down. We click on this website. We're going to scroll down. We choose the latest LTS version, which is Corretto 21 for me. On the left-hand side there is Linux, and then you can click on install on Debian-based RPM-based and Alpine Linux. So, I'm using Ubuntu right now, which is Debian-based Linux. And so it gives…

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