Step 1 — Install JDK

Step 2 — Creating an ‘Artemis’ User and Group
$ sudo groupadd artemis
$ sudo useradd -s /bin/false -g artemis -d /opt/artemis artemis

Step 3 — Download and Install ‘Artemis’
$ cd /sw
$ sudo wget https://archive.apache.org/dist/activemq/activemq-artemis/2.8.1/apache-artemis-2.8.1-bin.tar.gz
$ sudo tar -xvzf apache-artemis-2.8.1-bin.tar.gz
$ sudo mv apache-artemis-2.8.1 artemis

Step 4 — Change Permission and Ownership of the ‘Artemis’ Home Directory
sudo chown -R artemis: /sw/artemis
sudo chmod o+x /sw/artemis/bin/

Step 5 — Creating an Artemis Broker Instance
$ cd /var/lib
$ sudo /sw/artemis/bin/artemis create bmt-broker \
–user=admin –password=admin \
–http-host 0.0.0.0 –relax-jolokia \
–allow-anonymous

Step 6
sudo /var/lib/bmt-broker/bin/artemis run

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