ActiveMQ is an open-source message broker software that allows applications, systems and services to send and receive messages through different protocols. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install ActiveMQ on nixOS Latest using the official Apache ActiveMQ website.
Before you start installing ActiveMQ, you must have the following requirements:
To download ActiveMQ, you need to visit the official Apache ActiveMQ website at https://activemq.apache.org/download.html.
Once you are on the downloads page, scroll down until you see the ActiveMQ releases. ActiveMQ offers two release options:
For this tutorial, we will be using the binary release option. Under the " Binary Distribution " header, click the link for the latest release which is activeMQ-5.16.2-bin.tar.gz at the time of writing this tutorial. This will download the file to your computer.
Once the download process is completed, you need to extract the files to the desired directory.
To extract the file, open the Terminal and change the directory to where you downloaded ActiveMQ. Run the following command to extract the files:
tar -zxvf activeMQ-5.16.2-bin.tar.gz
This will create a new directory named apache-activemq-5.16.2 in the current directory containing the ActiveMQ files.
To start ActiveMQ, navigate into the apache-activemq-5.16.2/bin directory, and run the following command:
./activemq start
This will start ActiveMQ, and you should see output similar to this:
INFO: Loading '/opt/activemq/apache-activemq-5.16.2//bin/env'
INFO: Using java '/usr/bin/java'
INFO: Starting - inspect logfiles specified in logging.properties and log4j.properties to get details
INFO: pidfile created : '/opt/activemq/apache-activemq-5.16.2//data/activemq.pid' (pid '2114')
Once ActiveMQ is started, you can access the administrative console by visiting the following URL in a web browser:
http://localhost:8161/admin/
In this tutorial, you learned how to install ActiveMQ on nixOS Latest. You can now start using ActiveMQ for messaging between applications, systems and services.
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