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Can Linux files systems resolve a relative path before resolving symlink?
New Linux user here, freshly transitioned from Windows 10 to Fedora 41. Lot's of experience with many OS's, including various *nix and Unix-like file systems.
I have a standard practice of using ...
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Unable to locate an executable at "/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines
Whenever I try to run any apt command on my Mac I get
Unable to locate an executable at "/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-12.0.1.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/apt" (-1)
error.
My .bash_profile ...
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Switch ALL Java executable binaries to point to another JDK|JRE version with a single command
I know that I can use update-alternatives util to link specific executalbe to another alternative path.
I also know about JAVA_HOME, JDK_HOME, JRE_HOME etc... but I would prefer to manipulate default ...
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Unsatisfied Link Error (No such file or directory) on Linux, while file is available at given path
I am loading some .so files in my Java code using System.load("home/projects/proj/my.so"). Where I have given complete path of my .so files. But in my logs I am getting below error:
sys:Err: ...
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setting JAVA_HOME and PATH with update-alternatives
EDITED
The question was more about bash script them java environment and thanks for those whom had the patience and spare the time to reply me. I am much obliged.
As for the Java environment I started ...
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Are there downsides to setting path locations to symlinks?
I'm setting JAVA_HOME and using the alternatives location of
/usr/lib/jvm/jre
Which is a simlink to the absolute path of the current active installation.
Are there downsides to using this symlinked ...
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Set path for non shell user
I have installed Adopt OpenJDK version of Java. I set it up so all users will have JAVA_HOME set and that the bin folder for Java is in the PATH. However the software I installed afterwards that ...
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sudo root cannot find executable on path
I am on CentOS 7.5 and installing OpenJDK 11 from Adopt OpenJDK. It doesn't have an installer package so I am manually putting it in /usr/share. I then create the file /etc/profile.d/java.sh to set up ...
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Messed up environment variables in Centos 7
When I am running my maven build I am getting this error:
Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.
We cannot execute /usr/bin/bin/java
I have edited .bashrc, .profile, /root/.profile and /root/....
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linux java -version only works for root user [closed]
I have downloaded and installed jdk1.8.0_151 from oracle website. I defined JAVA_HOME and added it to the PATH variable in my /etc/environment.
Problem is when I type java -version command from ...
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Path pathology: java no longer working
There is some problem with my path which disrupts my java services. The components seem to be in the proper location.
$ which java
/usr/bin/java
$ which javac
/usr/bin/javac
But the version query no ...
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Why do I see "Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in ...." when I run ant (on RHEL 6.6) even though the path is set [closed]
I created a script in /etc/profile.d and named it jdk_home.sh. The contents of jdk_home.sh are as follows :
#!/bin/sh
export JAVA_HOME=$(readlink -f /usr/bin/javac | sed "s:/bin/javac::")
export ...
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How to set a path variable without root acess? [duplicate]
My college currently uses a very old (like 3 years old) openJDK 1.7 distribution. And being a student, obviously I don't have root privileges. I wanted to use a much later version downloaded a much ...
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Handling duplicate programs names bash
I'm wondering if $PATH cascades entries. You'll all need to take a leap of faith with me here, but here it goes.
Let's say we have a Java executable at /usr/bin/java but this version is very old and ...
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If I set java bin PATH Dockerfile Jar Command runs but tomcat doesn't
I'm creating a Docker file that FROM's the official TOMCAT 8 docker file and also seeks to use the jar command to extract content from a WAR file so I install openjdk-7-jdk.
If I don't set the PATH ...
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