Installing Adoptium (AdoptOpenJDK) on Linux Mint 20.3
Somehow I broke my Java runtime on my Linux Mint 20.3 computer. I think it had something to do with the fact that I started a release upgrade to go to 21, that didn't complete. I never went back and fixed it thinking I would do it later, and then later came and my Java install was broken. I decided that I wanted to try and install AdoptOpenJDK so I could have a bit newer version than was supported by the distribution. The Linux Mint Forums were talking about that it was best to install from the default package repository ( https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=381175&p=2228166&hilit=Adoptium#p2228166 ). Normally I would agree if you just want it to work and be done with it, but I was in the mood to get the third party version working. I have run into needing a newer version of Java than the default package repository provided before. To work out how to install it I came across the answer on the ask ubuntu question about installing Adoptium (AdoptOpenJDK) ...