A JRE or JDK must be available in order to run Eclipse No JVM was found after searching the following locations

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Eclipse is unable to open  have used eclipse before and has open before without a problem  Now I keep getting the following error message      A Java Runtime Environment  JRE  or Java Development Kit  JDK  must be available in order to run Eclipse  No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations    Have gotten eclipse to open and work on projects before and won t open   Here is a screen shot of what I keep getting

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I had this problem and it was due to my windows machine playing up. I went into control panel -> system -> advanced - environment variables.

I edited the PATH variable (which was already correctly set up), changed NOTHING, clicked OK to come back out of the screens.

Then eclipse worked. No idea why, except because windows. Hopefully this may help someone.

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I found a solution wherein the Eclipse ini the location was the old version of Java  and after updating the new version of java the location of  -vm  C  Program Files Java jre1 8 0 201 bin  was same so I had to change the directory to my new version of Java   So solution is to just open the most updated Java version and copying its directory path and replacing it in the Eclipse ini file

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I had this issue   I fixed it by going to Computer-- gt Properties-- gt Advanced Settings-- gt Environmental Variables In the System Variables find the variable named PATH  -- gt Select Edit -- gt At the very end of the Path Variable  put a  quot   quot  then add your path of your JDK and put  bin  at the end Should be fixed  Example  System Variable- C  Program Files  x86  Common Files       HP LeanFT bin JDK path- C  Programs Files Java jre1 8 0 121 Final Path - C  Program Files  x86  Common Files       HP LeanFT bin C  Programs Files Java jre1 8 0 121 bin  Sources  https   www java com en download help path xml

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This sometimes happen if you remove Java from your path variables  To set the PATH variable again  add the full path of the jdk bin directory to the PATH variable  Typically  the full path is  C  Program Files Java jdk-11 bin To set the PATH variable on Microsoft Windows   Select Control Panel and then System  Click Advanced and then Environment Variables  Add the location of the bin folder of the JDK installation to the PATH variable in system variables

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I had this problem too on a win7 machine  I wanted to update the jre with a jdk  So i deleted the jre folder and downloaded and unzipped the new jdk  The issue was i manually deleted the jre folder  when instead i should ve uninstalled it  This leaves a bunch of registry entries that still point to the old jre  Somehow eclipse still wants to use the old jre  I couldn t uninstall the old java vm  i kept getting this error   Error 1723  There is a problem with this Windows Installer package  A DLL required for this install to complete could not be run  Contact your support personnel or package vendor  So i had to use this MS utility to fix the uninstall   http   support microsoft com kb 2438651   Then i had to install again the vm  I installed to the same location the original one was at  to avoid losing another hour  After that eclipse started correctly   Julio

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I got this fixed by doing the below steps   1     The eclipse finds the JAVA executables  from  C  ProgramData Oracle Java javapath  The folder structure will contain shortcuts to the below executables    i  java exe  ii  javaw exe iii  javaws exe For me the executable paths were pointing to my  ProgramFiles x84   folder location I corrected it to Program Files path 64 bit  and the issue got resolved   Please find the screenshot for the same

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Its simple  JDK bin directory or JRE bin directory should be in path variable Example   Java Installed directory  Assume your java installed in  C  Program Files java Jdk1 8 0 144  directory Now you can find bin directory in  C  Program Files java Jdk1 8 0 144 bin   Navigate to user s environment variable  Control Panel -- gt  User Accounts -- gt  User Accounts -- gt  Change my environment variables   In popup click Path under User variables for  section Click Edit    button and another popup will appear  Click New button and enter C  Program Files java Jdk1 8 0 144 bin  Click OK button and again OK button in Environment variables popup   Now you can open your eclipse without error

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I got this problem because i uninstalled the jdk version 13 and reinstall the jdk version 8  Even though i have updated the path variables eclipse still pick the old configuration   You need to edit the eclipse ini file which is in your folder where eclipse exe is placed     Just update this file with the latest path so eclipse can pick it up

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Did you install Java via the java com web browser auto install   If so  then that s your problem  You need to to the  manual  install  http   www java com en download manual jsp  It s just a matter of having the correct match of 32-bit Eclipse 32-bit Java or 64-bit Eclipse 64-bit Java   Many 64-bit Windows have 32-bit browsers and the latter is the version of Java that the auto-installer will provide - not what the 64-bit Eclipse wants

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I also had same problem when developing android applications using eclipse IDE  I solved it by removing all the java installations  I had java 6 and 7 both  and re-install only jdk 7

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Change the vm value in eclipse ini file with the correct path to your JDK something like this      -vm  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines jdk-11 0 5 jdk Contents Home bin   Path to eclipse ini looks to me something like this    Users tomcat eclipse jee-2018-09 Eclipse app Contents Eclipse

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Just to add on top of other answers   Windows Users  You can give the PATH to JRE in eclipse ini separated by     or      It doesn t matter  Eclipse will pick it anyway  For example  in my windows system  either of the paths is fine  after -vm of course    C  Program Files Java jre1 8 0 181 bin or C  Program Files Java jre1 8 0 181 bin

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You can explicitly tell Eclipse where to find it  Open eclipse ini and add the following lines to the top of the file   -vm  absolute path to jre6 bin     Update  I just nailed down the root cause on my own Windows machine  The GlassFish installer complained with exactly the same error message and after digging in GlassFish forums  the cause was clear  a corrupt JRE install on a Windows machine  My JRE came along with the JDK and the Java 6 JDK installer didn t install the JRE properly somehow  A DLL file was missing in JDK s JRE installation  After I reinstalled the standalone JRE from http   java com  overwriting the old one  the GlassFish installer continued and also Eclipse was able to start flawlessly without those two lines in eclipse ini

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I had the same problem and the issue was that I had a 32 bit version of Eclipse running on my 64 bit machine and it wanted the 32 bit version of JRE    I changed Program Files to Program Files  x86  in the eclipse ini file like so   -VM C Program Files  x86  Java jre6 bin   and that solved the problem   You may want to just install the 64 bit Eclipse  but this will take care of the error

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Newb move on my part  but I had installed just the JRE instead of JDK  Installed JDK and my problem went immediately away

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Copy javaw exe from C  Program Files Java jre1 8 or 1 6 or 1 7 bin    and paste it inside Eclipse folder where eclipse exe is there  That s all

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C  Program Files Java jre1 8 0 221 bin  worked for me

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In my case I had edited the eclipse ini for a different purpose to include -vm parameter  That was causing the failure  I removed the -vm and following line where I had included  bin and that fixed the problem

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I just had this problem and fixed it this way  I noticed the error message has jre in it not jre6 or jre7  so i copied jre6 from program files to eclipse folder then renamed it from jre6 to jre  then it worked  p

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I have faced the similar issue earlier with Eclipse and STS IDE S   Please check weather JDK JRE is available or not in your machine  If not please install JDK and setup the environment variables  Even after step 1  if you are still facing the issue then it s time to set the vm argument in eclipse ini or sts ini in the following way     -vm  C Program Files  x86  Java jre8 bin

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Moderately future proof example for Linux-like systems  Assuming javac installed and on your path     eclipse -vm dirname   readlink -f   which javac    This will find the directory where javac is installed  and pass as vm argument to eclipse

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If on Linux  ex  Ubuntu 18   try installing  or reinstalling in your case   default-jre  as follows   sudo apt update sudo apt install default-jre   I had the same error when just trying to run the Eclipse installer    eclipse-inst  on a fresh Eclipse download just now  and the installer wouldn t even run  Installing default-jre solved it   Source    https   linux4one com how-to-install-eclipse-ide-on-ubuntu-18-04

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It usually is because    you indicated the wrong jvm path in your -vm argument  see this SO question for an concrete example  the eclipse ini got corrupted somehow  if it hasn t been modified  this isn t it  but if setting a jvm path doesn t work      I would replace the eclipse ini by one coming from a fresh installation just to be sure  the java which eclipse search by default is no longer accessible  because the  PATH is no longer up-to-date    More details on the wiki page  Finding a VM  Using JNI Invocation or Executing Java      No -vm specified      When no -vm is specified  the launcher looks for a virtual machine first in a jre directory in the root of eclipse and then on the search path    If java is found in either location  then we look for a jvm shared library  jvm dll on window  libjvm so on  nix platforms  relative to that java executable          If a jvm shared library is found we load it and use the JNI invocation api to start the vm    If no jvm shared library is found  we exec the java launcher to start the vm in a new process        As mentioned in  FAQ How do I run Eclipse        Eclipse DOES NOT consult the JAVA HOME environment variable     So I would check your  PATH  starting by n new shell sesion  whatever your OS is   typing  java -version  to see if it still returns anything

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Here is how I fixed mine    find the location where your jre is installed  in my case  it was located at C  Program  Files Java jdk1 7 0 10 copy the jre folder and paste it where your eclipse files are located  where eclipse exe is located     when you download eclipse  you get a  zip package containing eclipse exe and all the other files needed to run eclipse but it is missing the jre files  so all you need to do is to find where jre folder is located on your hard drive and add it to the rest of the eclipse package

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Make sure the install path of JDK is in your Path variable in Windows

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adding -vm C  Program Files Java jdk1 6 0 29 bin javaw exe  to the  ini file helped me

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Is so simple only add your java path for example      C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 121 bin   in PATH system variable

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