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Windows WSL2: Download Kafka and PATH setup

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Windows WSL2: Download Kafka and PATH setup

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- [Instructor] Okay, so now that WSL2 is installed, we're going to install Java JDK version 21 on our Ubuntu. Then we're going to download Apache Kafka under Binary Downloads, extract the content on WSL2 and set up the $PATH for easy access to the Kafka binaries. Okay, so the first thing we need to do is to install Java. So for this I'm going to tell install java corretto. We are going to click on this link. Production ready version of Corretto. And then we're going to download Corretto 21. And then on the left hand side you go on Linux and you click on Install on Debian-Based, RPM based, Linux. So we're using, actually, Debian-based because we have Ubuntu. So what I can do is I can just click on this command right here and paste it here and press Enter. And it's asking for my password so I need to enter my password. So make sure you enter your password. Otherwise this gets stuck. All right, so we can do, next, this…

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