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shankarpanda003

01-01-2013 10:46 PM

setting java environment varibale

Hello,
i have installed the java1.6 package what red hat linux is providing.But i am not able to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable.Can anyone please guide me how to do it.

shivaa

01-01-2013 10:59 PM

It can be set as:-

For bash shell:

Code:

JAVE_HOME=/path/to/java_dir; export JAVA_HOME

Or you can use,

Code:

export JAVA_HOME=/path/to/java_dir

And to make it permanant, add the same line at the end of your .bash_profile file.

For csh/tcsh shell:

Code:

setenv PATH /path/to/java:$PATH

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