Help Keep Boards Alive. Support us by going ad free today. See here: https://subscriptions.boards.ie/.
If we do not hit our goal we will be forced to close the site.

Current status: https://keepboardsalive.com/

Annual subs are best for most impact. If you are still undecided on going Ad Free - you can also donate using the Paypal Donate option. All contribution helps. Thank you.

https://www.boards.ie/group/1878-subscribers-forum

Private Group for paid up members of Boards.ie. Join the club.

Set JAVA_HOME variable permanently

dulpit · 2014-08-06 18:19:46

Hey all, This is possibly a stupid question, but is there an easy/quick way to set my JAVA_HOME system variable so that it will apply system wide, all the time? I've downloaded and installed the 1.8.0_11 JDK and want this as the variable, but can't seem to figure out how to set it as the variable across sessions. I'm using…

06-08-2014 07:19PM

#1

dulpit

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,833 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2006

Posts: 14029

Hey all,

This is possibly a stupid question, but is there an easy/quick way to set my JAVA_HOME system variable so that it will apply system wide, all the time? I've downloaded and installed the 1.8.0_11 JDK and want this as the variable, but can't seem to figure out how to set it as the variable across sessions.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 fwiw.

Cheers.

0

Comments

#2 07-08-2014 11:11AM

opus

Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,117 ✭✭✭

Join Date: December 2001

Posts: 4955

Don't use Ubuntu but in Ferora I'd put two files in /etc/profile.d called javahome.sh & javahome.csh with the following commands.

export JAVA_HOME=whatever

&

setenv JAVA_HOME whatever

Presume there's something similar in Ubuntu?

0
#3 08-08-2014 01:27PM

croo

Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 1,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2006

Posts: 1316

Yes ubuntu is very similar and what you suggest should work ... there are other possibilities too - OP see these Ubuntu Docs for full details.

0