[Sussex] vvv confused with java - jre, sdk and jvm

[Steve Dobson]

Richie, John

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 06:33:30PM +0100, Richie Jarvis wrote:
> The normal problem with java is that by default, Linux uses GCJ, which 
> is compiled Java, and will not run most java apps out of the box.  The 
> way to tell is to type at the prompt of the user you are trying to run 
> the application under:
> 
> java -version
> 
> If it comes back with something referencing GCJ, then you know you are 
> having this problem.  The trick to get it to use Sun's JRE (Java Runtime 
> Environment) is to add $JAVA_HOME before everything else in the path:
> 
> export PATH=$JAVA_HOME:$PATH

John said earlier that he had set JAVA_HOME to /usr/lib/jvm/java
If the Java system John install is the same as the JDK I install then
you need to add set PATH thus:
   export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

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