% Installing Clojure
% John Gabriele

"How do you install Clojure?" Short answer: you don't. `:)`

As noted in the [general overview](general-overview.html), you must
have Java installed before you can use Clojure. If you don't already
have it:

    sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

The Clojure implementation itself is just a single jar file. The
Clojure projects you create (described in the next chapter) will have
access to a copy of that jar file which the project management tool
automatically fetches and keeps around for you.

So, although you won't need to install Clojure, you *will* need to
install the project management tool, and that's described in the next
chapter.