Install Apache ActiveMQ Artemis

Setup

Prerequisites

Access as root user or user having root privileges
Latest version of Java 8

Download Java 8 latest version from Oracle official website and install on server

# /opt/jdk1.8.0_241/bin/java -version java version "1.8.0_241" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_241-b07) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.241-b07, mixed mode)
Create a new user and group "activemq". This user will be used to run ActiveMQ services
# useradd activemq
# id activemq uid=1003(activemq) gid=1003(activemq) groups=1003(activemq)

Download ActiveMQ Artemis

Login as root user or with user having root privileges
Download Apache ActiveMQ Artemis from the official website using the following link.

Download Apache ActiveMQ Artemis

# ls -l /tmp/apache-artemis-2.18.0-bin.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62463974 Sep 10 16:20 apache-artemis-2.18.0-bin.tar.gz
Extract ActiveMQ Artemis tarball into /opt
# tar xfz apache-artemis-2.18.0-bin.tar.gz -C /opt
Change the ownership of extracted files to activemq user
# chown -R activemq:activemq /opt/apache-artemis-2.18.0/
Check the contents of activemq install directory
# ls -l /opt/apache-artemis-2.18.0/ drwxr-xr-x 3 activemq activemq 51 Sep 10 16:22 bin drwxr-xr-x 6 activemq activemq 80 Jan 22 2020 examples drwxr-xr-x 3 activemq activemq 4096 Sep 10 16:22 lib -rw-r--r-- 1 activemq activemq 24444 Jan 22 2020 LICENSE drwxr-xr-x 2 activemq activemq 4096 Sep 10 16:22 licenses -rw-r--r-- 1 activemq activemq 179 Jan 22 2020 NOTICE -rw-r--r-- 1 activemq activemq 5391 Jan 22 2020 README.html drwxr-xr-x 2 activemq activemq 123 Jan 22 2020 schema drwxr-xr-x 10 activemq activemq 232 Sep 10 16:22 web
Apache ActiveMQ Artemis Install is complete.