• Install the latest version of Java 8.
  We recommend Adoptium Open JDK, which you can download from .

Installation

Windows

• From the Adoptium home page https://adoptium.net. Select the option: select
  • Termurin 8
  • (Note that, by default, this will download the HotSpot build of Java for 64 bit architectures)
• Press the button Latest release to download the latest version of Adoptium Open JDK 8 HotSpot for Windows 64-bit
• This will download an MSI installation package. Complete the installation process as standard for an MSI package, accepting all defaults

Linux

https://adoptium.net/installation.html?variant=openjdk8&jvmVariant=hotspot#x64_linux-jdk

cd /tmp wget https://adoptopenjdk.jfrog.io/adoptopenjdk/api/gpg/key/public

Configuration

• Update the security settings to allow strong encryption and decryption of files: set the crypto.policy to unlimited for the JRE used by PhixFlow.
  • To do this, go to the JRE directory /lib/security/java.security file.

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crypto.policy=unlimited

• You do not need to set the environment variable JAVA_HOME, but some operators find this useful for convenience. Note that some installation processes will set this for you. For example, on some linux distributions, this will be set for all users by a file /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh, created by the installation process. If you decide you wish to set this and it has not been set by your installation process, set it to the base installation directory of Java, e.g.
  

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