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Compared to other programming languages, installing Scala is a bit unusual. It's possible to "install" Scala in numerous ways.

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First, make sure you have the Java 8 JDK installed.

java -version(Make sure you have version 1.8.)

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Then, install Scala using:

Scala is unusual because it is usually installed for each of your Scala projects rather than being installed system-wide. Both of the above options manage a specific Scala version per Scala project you create.

Release Notes

For a summary of important changes, see the GitHub release notes. (Or consult our archive of older release notes.)

Other resources

You can find the installer download links for other operating systems, as well as documentation and source code archives for Scala 2.12.2 below.

Archive System Size
scala-2.12.2.tgz Mac OS X, Unix, Cygwin 18.69M
scala-2.12.2.msi Windows (msi installer) 126.44M
scala-2.12.2.zip Windows 18.73M
scala-2.12.2.deb Debian 145.14M
scala-2.12.2.rpm RPM package 125.88M
scala-docs-2.12.2.txz API docs 56.51M
scala-docs-2.12.2.zip API docs 109.80M
scala-sources-2.12.2.tar.gz Sources

License

The Scala distribution is released under the 3-clause BSD license.