JAVA_HOME defined but maven2 compains it could not find it

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:27 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 22 October 2010 15:15, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> >> On 22 October 2010 14:27, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> /usr/bin/java
> >>> not java defined in  $JAVA_HOME/bin.java
> >>>
> >>
> >> /usr/bin/java is almost certainly a symbolic link...
> >>
> >>
> >> alan at hactar:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/java
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2010-02-07 14:17 /usr/bin/java ->
> >> /etc/alternatives/java
> >>
> >> Which in my case leads me to this location..
> >>
> >> alan at hactar:~$ ls -l  /etc/alternatives/java
> >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 2010-02-07 14:17 /etc/alternatives/java ->
> >> /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java
> >>
> >> To modify yours I recommend reading this page:-
> >>
> >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java -> "Choosing the default Java to use"
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Al.
> >>
> > Ok I read the link you gave and also man page of update-alternatives
> > excerpts from your link
> > "update-alternatives --config java"
> > I could not understand how to do so.
> > My usual way to do so would be to add $JAVA_HOME before /usr/bin in
> > $PATH in /etc/profile
> > but I feel there should be an elegant way to do so.
> > I have created a symbolic link so now
> > ls -l /usr/bin/java
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 2010-10-20 16:36 /usr/bin/java ->
> > /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.20/bin/java
> > is this correct.
> 
> I don't understand why you need to change any of this.  What are you
> trying to accomplish?

I think he installed the tar file, as opposed to the easy way using
synaptic. <sighs> Ric


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