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+sudo cp app/build/distributions/app.zip /opt/
+sudo rm -rf /opt/app/
+sudo unzip /opt/app.zip -d /opt/
+sudo rm /opt/app.zip
+sudo chown ptrowbridge:ptrowbridge -R /opt/app/
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+## install java jdk. 
+find downloads page and get latest tarball.
+https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/
+
+`wget https://download.oracle.com/java/19/latest/jdk-19_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz`
+`tar -xvf downloaded_file`
+move the extracted folder to /opt
+put the extracted location in your path variable
+```
+export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk-19.0.1
+export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
+```
+
+`java --version` to test
+
+## install gradle
+https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/installation.html
+go to gradle.org and find the latest bin.zip file (burried in the `direct link` hyperlink)
+`wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6-bin.zip`
+`unzip -d /opt/gradle gradle-7.6-bin.zip`
+point to the gradle install
+`export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gradle/gradle-7.6/bin`
+`gradle -v` to validate
+
+## clone this repo
+clone 
+`git clone https://gitea.hptrow.me/pt/jrunner.git`
+
+build
+gradle build`
+
+copy to opt for use
+```
+sudo cp jrunner/app/build/distributions/app.zip /opt/
+sudo rm -rf app/
+sudo unzip app.zip
+sudo rm app.zip
+sudo chown ptrowbridge:ptrowbridge -R app/
+```