On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:30 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 27 March 2006 13:46, Craig White wrote: > >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 > > Thanks Craig, although I expect this will enlarge the already lengthy > list of stuff that needs massaging when a new java jre is installed. ---- it all depends upon what your needs are. I'm giving the larger picture view here but I can appreciate that some are incapable of seeing the larger picture. you only need to implement that which you need - much as I've done there by only exporting the JAVA_HOME and not the other environmental variables. Thus, the path is likely to be important and in his case, he needed the environmental variable JAVA_HOME so it is exported Craig
