I've got a CentOS 6.5 application server that requires OpenJDK installed on it before JBoss can be manually loaded. I've never install Java / JBoss before and while I can just do the following and call it a day:

I would like to download the tarball of this and install it manually. Currently the tarball is located in /tmp/ and I would like to know where in the Linux file structure hiarchy is it appropriate for me to install the JDK package in? I assume it goes "usually in /some/path/commonly/used" and then I can update my users .bashrc and add the path and export JAVA_HOME or something to that nature. Can anyone please help me struggling to do this correctly or guide me in the right direction?

Looking for help on where I extract this tarball and install the OpenJDK package and then reference it so my users can all access it.

Thank you!

Please use # yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64

There are too many dependencies and automatic settings
that you will miss with any kind of manual install.
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Besides that, the /tmp/ directory is not meant to be used.
Except for the processes that are using /tmp/ .
Using the /tmp/ folder for other things will alter the permissions.

The tmp folder to use for {building / storing "manaual" tasks}
is : /home/<name>/tmp/ ( Or any folder in /home/<name>/ ).

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Thank you for the info about using /tmp and it altering permissions which obviously is not recommended / bad. I've installed OpenJDK using Yum to avoid dependency hell as well as creating a JAVA_HOME variable in my users ~/.bashrc. I never know / understand when I should add / append something to .bashrc versus .bash_profile.