Installing sbt on Linux 

Install sbt with cs setup 

Follow Install page, and install Scala using Coursier. This should install the latest stable version of sbt.

Installing from SDKMAN 

To install both JDK and sbt, consider using SDKMAN.

$ sdk install java $(sdk list java | grep -o "\b8\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\-tem" | head -1)
$ sdk install sbt

Using Coursier or SDKMAN has two advantages.

1. They will install the official packaging by Eclipse Adoptium, as opposed to the “mystery meat OpenJDK builds“.
2. They will install tgz packaging of sbt that contains all JAR files. (DEB and RPM packages do not to save bandwidth)

Install JDK 

You must first install a JDK. We recommend Eclipse Adoptium Temurin JDK 8, JDK 11, or JDK 17.

The details around the package names differ from one distribution to another. For example, Ubuntu xenial (16.04LTS) has openjdk-8-jdk. Redhat family calls it java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel.

Installing from a universal package 

Download ZIP or TGZ package and expand it.

Ubuntu and other Debian-based distributions 

DEB package is officially supported by sbt.

Ubuntu and other Debian-based distributions use the DEB format, but usually you don’t install your software from a local DEB file. Instead they come with package managers both for the command line (e.g. apt-get, aptitude) or with a graphical user interface (e.g. Synaptic). Run the following from the terminal to install sbt (You’ll need superuser privileges to do so, hence the sudo).

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https curl gnupg -yqq
echo "deb https://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/debian all main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sbt.list
echo "deb https://repo.scala-sbt.org/scalasbt/debian /" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sbt_old.list
curl -sL "https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2EE0EA64E40A89B84B2DF73499E82A75642AC823" | sudo -H gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring gnupg-ring:/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/scalasbt-release.gpg --import
sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/scalasbt-release.gpg
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sbt

Package managers will check a number of configured repositories for packages to offer for installation. You just have to add the repository to the places your package manager will check.

Once sbt is installed, you’ll be able to manage the package in aptitude or Synaptic after you updated their package cache. You should also be able to see the added repository at the bottom of the list in System Settings -> Software & Updates -> Other Software:

Note: There have been reports about SSL error using Ubuntu: Server access Error: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected error: java.security.InvalidAlgorithmParameterException: the trustAnchors parameter must be non-empty url=https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/scala-sbt/sbt/1.1.0/sbt-1.1.0.pom, which apparently stems from OpenJDK 9 using PKCS12 format for /etc/ssl/certs/java/cacerts cert-bug. According to https://stackoverflow.com/a/50103533/3827 it is fixed in Ubuntu Cosmic (18.10), but Ubuntu Bionic LTS (18.04) is still waiting for a release. See the answer for a workaround.

Note: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com:443 --recv 2EE0EA64E40A89B84B2DF73499E82A75642AC823 may not work on Ubuntu Bionic LTS (18.04) since it’s using a buggy GnuPG, so we are advising to use web API to download the public key in the above.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other RPM-based distributions 

RPM package is officially supported by sbt.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other RPM-based distributions use the RPM format. Run the following from the terminal to install sbt (You’ll need superuser privileges to do so, hence the sudo).

# remove old Bintray repo file
sudo rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/bintray-rpm.repo
curl -L https://www.scala-sbt.org/sbt-rpm.repo > sbt-rpm.repo
sudo mv sbt-rpm.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo yum install sbt

On Fedora (31 and above), use sbt-rpm.repo:

# remove old Bintray repo file
sudo rm -f /etc/yum.repos.d/bintray-rpm.repo
curl -L https://www.scala-sbt.org/sbt-rpm.repo > sbt-rpm.repo
sudo mv sbt-rpm.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
sudo dnf install sbt

Note: Please report any issues with these to the sbt project.

Gentoo 

The official tree contains ebuilds for sbt. To install the latest available version do:

emerge dev-java/sbt