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Set $JAVA_HOME in Linux

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Clarice Bouwer

Software Engineering Team Lead and Director of Cloudsure

Saturday, 2 February 2019 · Estimated 1 minute read

$JAVA_HOME an environment variable. It is the root path of the JRE or JDK which some applications and services use to access Java.

I know that Java is installed java -version but its not in the path echo $JAVA_HOME, the output is empty.

Configure for single user

  • Open the shell script in your favorite editor eg. vim ~/.zshrc vim ~/.bashrc

  • Add this line to export the path the the corresponding directory export JAVA_HOME=/usr/bin/java which can be determined using which java if you are unsure.

  • Add the path to $PATH export $PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME

  • Save the file.

  • Source the file in your terminal eg. source ~/.zshrc or source ~/.bashrc

  • Execute echo $JAVA_HOME to verify the output.

Configure for all users

  • Login a root or use sudo to execute commands.

  • Execute bash sudo bash

  • Edit vim /etc/bashrc or vim /etc/profile

  • Add export JAVA_HOME=/usr/bin/java

  • Save the file.

  • Source source /etc/bashrc or source /etc/profile

  • Echo echo $JAVA_HOME

  • exit to exit the sudo bash terminal.

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