How to install Rapidminer Studio on Ubuntu 18.04?

I tried to install Rapidminer studio on my Ubuntu 18.04 From the .zip file I followed the instructions in Installing RapidMiner Studio. I applied the command ./RapidMiner-Studio.sh and got:

RAPIDMINER_HOME is not set. Trying the directory '/home/user/snap/Rapidminer/rapidminer-studio'...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/DatatypeConverter at com.rapidminer.license.verification.JarVerifier.createPublicKey(JarVerifier.java:267) at com.rapidminer.license.verification.JarVerifier.<clinit>(JarVerifier.java:137) at com.rapidminer.launcher.GUILauncher.main(GUILauncher.java:286)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter at (BuiltinClassLoader.java:581) at (ClassLoaders.java:178) at (ClassLoader.java:521) ... 3 more

1 Answer

Use openjdk-8. Rapidminer runs on only openjdk 8 so if you have java 11 installed change preferences to openjdk-8.