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Installing Kotlin in Linux/Ubuntu and Creating Hello World

This article explains how to install the Kotlin programming language on Linux/Ubuntu 16.04 (18.04) computers and servers and create a Hello World program. curl -s https://get.sdkman.io | bash . ~/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh sdk install kotlin sdk install java...

Shou Arisaka
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Nov 13, 2025

This article explains how to install the Kotlin programming language on Linux/Ubuntu 16.04 (18.04) computers and servers and create a Hello World program.

$ curl -s https://get.sdkman.io | bash
. ~/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh

sdk install kotlin
sdk install java

cat << EOT > hello.kt
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    println("Hello, World!")
}
EOT

# Compile
kotlinc ./hello.kt -include-runtime -d hello.jar
# Execute
kotlin hello.jar

cat << EOT >> ~/.bashrc
# add pathes for kotlin
. ~/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh
EOT

Reference:
[UbuntuにKotlinをインストールしてハローワールドまでやってみた #teratail_kt - Qiita](https://qiita.com/n0bisuke/items/686c1717a894713fdd06)

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