In this article, we are going to install the most current version to date of Pentaho PDI (Pentaho Data Integration) CE (Community Edition) 9.0.0.0-423 on Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia.
The prerequisite for this PDI version is JDK 8. This Java version can be installed with the command:
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk
To confirm the installation, run the command:
java -version The result should be similar to this, showing version “1.8.0_252”:
After installing the compatible version of Java, we can download Pentaho PDI from here:
For organization and standard reasons, in /opt create the pentaho/client-tools directory, as shown in the example below:
Unzip the .zip package in the /opt/pentaho/client-tools directory. The data-integration directory will be created:
Give permission to all files with .sh extension, through the following command in the terminal:
chmod 755 *.sh 
Use the following command to run PDI Spoon:
./spoon.sh 
PDI Spoon opening:
PDI Spoon home screen:
