Installing Azul Zulu CA TAR.GZ-Packages on Linux

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Community Availability (CA) distributions are Azul Zulu Builds of OpenJDK that are free to download and use.

Use the following instructions to install Azul Zulu CA from TAR.GZ-files.

This section explains how to install Azul Zulu Builds of OpenJDK on Linux distributions from a binary tar.gz package.

Download the appropriate .tar.gz package for your OS from Azul Downloads, directly from the website, or in the terminal.
```
 curl -s -O https://cdn.azul.com/zulu/bin/zulu21.46.19-ca-jdk21.0.9-linux_x64.tar.gz
```
Copy the checksum from the download page.

Verify that the checksum of the file matches the value provided on the download page. To calculate the checksum, use this command:

 sha256sum zulu21.46.19-ca-jdk21.0.9-linux_x64.tar.gz

Example output:

 67e810b31427ac0ff1c249473595066a00bdf0f9265df186c32905d5f75c93b8  zulu21.46.19-ca-jdk21.0.9-linux_x64.tar.gz

Extract the package content into a folder.
```
 tar -xzvf zulu21.46.19-ca-jdk21.0.9-linux_x64.tar.gz
```
This command creates a folder named to match the installation package name without .tar.gz. This is your Azul Zulu installation folder.

Verify that the package was unpacked successfully by running the following command:

 $ <installation_folder>/bin/java -version
openjdk version "21.0.9" 2025-10-21 LTS
OpenJDK Runtime Environment Zulu21.46+19-CA (build 21.0.9+10-LTS)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM Zulu21.46+19-CA (build 21.0.9+10-LTS, mixed mode, sharing)

(Optional) Add <installation_folder>/bin to your PATH environment variable, so that you can execute java from any directory without specifying the full path.
```
 export PATH=<installation_folder>/bin:$PATH
```