setting java environment varibale

shankarpanda003 · 01-01-2013, 10:46 PM

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