Select Version "Official (Stable)" etc

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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  • Platform information:
    • Hardware: CPUArchitecture/RAM/storage Raspberry Pi B 3 ARM
    • OS: what OS is used and which version Raspbian
    • Java Runtime Environment: which java platform is used and what version ZULU 13
    • openHAB version: latest
  • Issue of the topic: please be detailed explaining your issue

As a total beginner I try to set up OpenHAB. I made up to here: Raspberry Pi | openHAB

After Step 1 ( ```
wget -qO - ‘https://bintray.com/user/downloadSubjectPublicKey?username=openhab’ | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https


The documentation says I get to choose between versions (Official (Stable), and so on), but I do not seem to get there.

The latest output is:
> root@smartkb:/opt/jdk# sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   apt-transport-https
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 149 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 156 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/debian/raspbian/raspbian buster/main armhf apt-transport-https all 1.8.2.2 [149 kB]
> Fetched 149 kB in 0s (339 kB/s)
> Selecting previously unselected package apt-transport-https.
> (Reading database ... 242103 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../apt-transport-https_1.8.2.2_all.deb ...
> Unpacking apt-transport-https (1.8.2.2) ...
> Setting up apt-transport-https (1.8.2.2) ...
> root@smartkb:/opt/jdk# sudo apt-get update
> Get:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB]
> Hit:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease
> Hit:3 https://www.pivccu.de/piVCCU stable InRelease
> Fetched 15.0 kB in 1s (10.4 kB/s)
> Reading package lists... Done
> root@smartkb:/opt/jdk# sudo apt-get install openhab
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Unable to locate package openhab
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Please downgrade your Java to Zulu 11 !!!
As you can read in the prerequisits, no higher Version supported, as Java 11 is the latest LTS version.

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Thanks, but it still does not give me the choice between builds and doesn’t find openhab for install.

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It is possible the packages have moved but OpenHABian was designed for the easiest way to install ooenHAB in a Pi.

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You missed the step where you add the apt repo to apt sources. Please read the installation guide carefully, or even better, use the openHABian image as @Bruce_Osborne mentioned…

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Thanks. It looks like the instructions in https://www.openhab.org/docs/installation/rasppi.html#installation-of-openhab miss the step

echo ‘deb https://dl.bintray.com/openhab/apt-repo2 stable main’ | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openhab.list

which can be found in the " general Linux installation steps described in [Package Repository based Installation on Linux]" linked there