Kafka Unrecognized VM option 'PrintGCDateStamps'

Question

I installed Kafka on a remote server, and when I tried to run

~/kafka/bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh ~/kafka/config/zookeeper.properties

And I r

Answer 1

As of now, the Kafka's default package has errors with Java 9. The easiest solution is to roll back to java8.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt update; sudo apt install oracle-java8-installer
sudo apt install oracle-java8-set-default