Setup Notes

See Installing sbt runner for the instruction on general setup. Using Coursier or SDKMAN has two advantages.

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

This page describes alternative ways of installing the sbt runner. Note that some of the third-party packages may not provide the latest version.

Homebrew maintainers have added a dependency to JDK 13 because they want to use more brew dependencies (brew#50649). This causes sbt to use JDK 13 even when java available on PATH is JDK 8 or 11. To prevent sbt from running on JDK 13, install jEnv or switch to using SDKMAN.

Windows

sbt-.msi

Chocolatey

> choco install sbt

Scoop

> scoop install sbt

Linux

Ubuntu and other Debian-based distributions

DEB package is officially supported by sbt, but it does not contain JAR files to save bandwidth.

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:

Ubuntu Software & Updates Screenshot

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, but it does not contain JAR files to save bandwidth.

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

The Book of sbt