Invalid JAVA_HOME when build with cordova

Rafael Soufraz picture Rafael Soufraz · Nov 26, 2015 · Viewed 13.6k times · Source

I am trying to emulate an app on my device with cordova in OpenSuse Leap 42.1.
But when I tried to emulate the app with the cordova run I get the error below:

cordova run
Running command: /home/soufraz/Projects/apps/myproject/platforms/android/cordova/run 
ERROR: Error: Failed to run "java -version", make sure that you have a JDK installed.
You can get it from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads.
Your JAVA_HOME is invalid: /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0

ERROR running one or more of the platforms: Error: /home/soufraz/Projects/apps/myproject/platforms/android/cordova/run: Command failed with exit code 2
You may not have the required environment or OS to run this project

I have the java installed and the paths set in ~/.profile.
Which is the configuration error in my environment?

Below my .profile:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0
export JAVA_HOME

ANDROID_HOME=/home/soufraz/Install/android-sdk-linux
export ANDROID_HOME

PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME:$JAVA_HOME

Info about java version:

java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_60"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_60-b27)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.60-b23, mixed mode)

And here the list of jvm folder:

ls -l
total 28
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Nov 12 11:28 java-1.7.0-openjdk -> java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  6 Nov 12 11:28 java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  6 Nov 11 17:26 java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Nov 11 17:26 jre -> /etc/alternatives/jre
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov 12 11:28 jre-1.7.0 -> /etc/alternatives/jre_1.7.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Nov 12 11:28 jre-1.7.0-openjdk -> java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0/jre
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Nov 11 17:26 jre-1.8.0 -> /etc/alternatives/jre_1.8.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Nov 11 17:26 jre-1.8.0-openjdk -> java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0/jre
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Nov 11 17:26 jre-openjdk -> /etc/alternatives/jre_openjdk

[edit] View tree with three levels:

tree -L 3
.
├── java-1.7.0-openjdk -> java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0
├── java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0
│   └── jre
│       ├── bin
│       └── lib
├── java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0
│   └── jre
│       ├── bin
│       └── lib
├── jre -> /etc/alternatives/jre
├── jre-1.7.0 -> /etc/alternatives/jre_1.7.0
├── jre-1.7.0-openjdk -> java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0/jre
├── jre-1.8.0 -> /etc/alternatives/jre_1.8.0
├── jre-1.8.0-openjdk -> java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0/jre
└── jre-openjdk -> /etc/alternatives/jre_openjdk

Answer

dan picture dan · Nov 29, 2015

Cordova needs a JDK not a JRE, since it is checking for javac. See check_reqs.js line 86. From your comments you are saying that "Inside this path, there isn't the bin folder" in a JDK you should have a bin directory!