4

we are new to Ubuntu.Recently we changed my server OS to ubuntu 12.04 from windows 7 . every one have their own login details. one of my college installed Open-Jdk7. I asked him, where you installed JAVA, then he suggested to switch the following directory

su root
cd /usr/lib/Jvm

Totally 3 folders are there in JVM folder. names are.

  1. java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64

  2. java-7-openjdk-amd64

  3. java-7-openjdk-common

generally, If you install Java in Windows, we will get 2 folder. 1 folder is for JDKand another points to JRE.

but, in Ubuntu we have 3 folders. is it right?

for my conformation, whether he installed correctly or not. I open Terminal. I run the following 2 commands

 javac
 java -version

both commands are working fine.

now I want to set-up Java-Home and Path for all users at same place.because everyone is working on Application server.

Can anyone explain step-by-step.

Thanks.

Tim
  • 32,861
  • 27
  • 118
  • 178
ur truly friend
  • 151
  • 1
  • 1
  • 4
  • The best way to setup environment variables for all users is editing /etc/environment file. It has pretty simple syntax. And to setup user-specific environment variable you should edit ~/.bashrc file. Add the export VAR=value to the end of this file. – Danatela Jul 18 '13 at 07:55
  • I mention like this.

    PATH=PredefinePaths:/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64". I didn't mention any special charachers in between Path and JAVA-HOME variables. Is it right, What I did

     – ur truly friend Jul 18 '13 at 11:07
  • I see you came from Windows world :) There is no need to change PATH variable. Just add JAVA_HOME and JDK_HOME if some application requires them. – Danatela Jul 18 '13 at 11:16

3 Answers3

2

Installation of Oracle Java:

  1. Donwload the tarball from Oracle website

  2. unzip it using this command:

    sudo tar -xvpzf fileName -C /installation_folder_name`
  3. change the files permission and ownership

  4. add the following two lines in /etc/profile

    export JAVA_HOME=/home/abu/Java/jdk1.8.0_45/
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

  5. restart the machine and check by java -version and javac -version
Zanna
  • 70,465
Abu Sayed
  • 21
0

Edit the system Path file /etc/profile

sudo -H gedit /etc/profile # always use -H when you sudo a gui program or anything else which might write config files to the $HOME directory.

Add following lines in end

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:$JAVA_HOME/bin
export JAVA_HOME
export JRE_HOME
export PATH

For complete installation guide.. http://javaandme.com/

Community
  • 1
Pratap Singh
  • 311
-1
sudo gedit /etc/environment

then add these lines

JAVA_HOME = ":usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin"
CLASSPATH = ":usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/bin:/home/something etc whatever you want etc" ( separated by semicolon )
Eric Carvalho
  • 54,385
rightkushagra
  • 69