How can I setup JAVA HOME path without having to set it each time I restart my machine I ve used the following ways when trying to set JAVA HOME on my Ubuntu machine 1 From terminal I ve executed the following command export JAVA HOME usr lib jvm jdk1 7 0 2 I ve edited the etc enviroment file directly to add JAVA HOME path in it What s really strange is that if I test JAVA HOME using the echo command after an of the above two ways I can see it is set correctly but if I restart logout login again or even after working on the machine for a while the JAVA HOME is no more set and I have to set it again using any of the above two ways So can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong here

How to set JAVA_HOME path on Ubuntu?

add JAVA_HOME to the file:

/etc/environment

for it to be available to the entire system (you would need to restart Ubuntu though)

~ Answered on 2013-06-25 01:16:51