directory for java jdk

**meteora184** · October 17th, 2011

Hello all so recently i installed ubuntu 11.1 on my toshiba laptop. I was trying to get netbeans running and it said it could not find the correct jdk necessary to run netbeans.

Now i have openJDK Java 7 Runtime installed, is this what I should have? and if so where would I find the directory of this so I can specify it in the netbeans installer?

**11jmb** · October 17th, 2011

do you have openjdk java 7 jdk installed?

**cavh** · October 17th, 2011

Presuming you have the JDK installed and not just the JRE (11jmb asks you the right question

), in a terminal:

Code:

whereis java

you need the folder with 'bin' in the path. In my system, the location is /usr/bin/java.

See also https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java

**meteora184** · October 17th, 2011

first of all you are right i did not have the actual jdk installed. the fact that it is called openjdk confused me.
I installed the jdk and then the installer managed to find the folder so thanks a bunch
this forum never ceases to let me down!