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linux search path

Posted by sunny sun on July 12, 2001 at 11:43 AM

> How can I change the search path, that starts the java when I
> type "java" into the bash

go to /root and type ls -a. and then edit .bash_profile like this:(assuming your jdk in /root/homt/jdk1.3)
JAVA_PATH=/root/home/jdk1.3/bin
export JAVA_PATH
and then save the file

to test, just type java -version to see if the JVM version information is right.