I recently switched my Java versions from 1.5 to 1.6 and I’ve been
hitting some issues with the java path.
I tried setting the environment
variable JAVA_HOME=/usr and
that worked for some stuff but I still saw this error when running
java.
eg:
>java
-version
Unable to find a $JAVA_HOME at "/usr", continuing with
system-provided Java
I solved the problem by doing the following.
First I found out where java actually was with:
>ls -l'
`which java`
/usr/bin/java ->
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java
I noticed a command called java_home in that same directory.
Running that command yields the correct java home directory.
>/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java_home
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home
To correctly set the my JAVA_HOME environment variable in future, I
added the following to my~/.profile
export
JAVA_HOME=`/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Commands/java_home`
Once you have done this you can restart your terminal window or
run >.
~/.profile to reload you profile into the
current terminal session.