On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 20:08 +0200, Ali Helmy wrote: > Hey mates, > > In an installation of one program (Apache Tomcat) it instructed me to: > Set an environment variable named JAVA_HOME to the pathname of the > directory into which you installed the JRE... > > So how does one set an environment variable? Assuming I got java > installed at /usr/java/ ---- this ***may*** be useful to you # cat /etc/profile.d/java.sh JREHOME="/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/lib/i386" JAVA_HOME="/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06" JAVAWSHOME="/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/javaws" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$JREHOME:$JAVAWSHOME" PATH="$PATH:/usr/java/jre1.5.0_06/bin" export JAVA_HOME Adjust as needed Craig
