webupd8 JAVA_HOME not set after installing oracle-java8-set-default

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resilva87 picture resilva87 · Mar 26, 2015 · Viewed 11.8k times · Source

I'm following this link to install Oracle Java 8.

Maybe I got this wrong, but I suppose JAVA_HOME should be set after installing oracle-java8-set-default.

If I echo $JAVA_HOME or printenv | grep -i java nothing comes up. I'm using Linux Mint 17.1 (Rebecca)

Thanks!

Answer

Elliott Frisch picture Elliott Frisch · Mar 26, 2015

Your JAVA_HOME will not be set by the webupd8 method, and you don't normally need it (because the update-java-alternatives script manages the environment). If you're looking for the folder it's under "/usr/lib/jvm" and you can certainly do

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle

and you can also test which Java is active with

java -version

or

java -fullversion

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