where is java's home dir?...

[zander1013]

hi,

how do i find the home dir of java on my machine?
i am using 8.10.
thank you,

zander

[EnGorDiaz]

goto home

and then
ctrl H

[zander1013]

goto home

and then
ctrl H

thank you; but i am not in a java environment. i would like to determine the path to the java 1.6 sdk installed on my machine.


please advise.

[darco]

type
whereis java

daro

[zander1013]

type
whereis java

daro

thank you darco...

:popcorn:

[gtdaqua]

$ whereis java
java: /usr/bin/java /etc/java /usr/share/java

That tells the command java resides in /usr/bin/java.

Dig again:



$ ls -l /usr/bin/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-01-15 18:34 /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java

So, now we know that /usr/bin/java is actually a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/java.

Dig deeper using the same method above:


$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2009-01-15 18:34 /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/local/jre1.6.0_07/bin/java


So, thats the actual location of java: /usr/local/jre.....
You could still dig deeper to find other symbolic links.

[Coldhearth]

Thx your post helped me out very good =)