Setting JAVA_HOME on Raspberry Pi

The new Raspbian build comes with Java 1.8 pre-installed. You can check the current java version by issuing following command;

java -version

java version "1.8.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode)

In order to set environment variable "JAVA_HOME"; you can set it on ~/.bashrc file.

nano ~/.bashrc

then add the following into the end of file and save changes.

export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-arm-vfp-hflt"
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

Then on you next login you can try out this;

export

which should ideally print;

declare -x JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-arm-vfp-hflt"
declare -x PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-arm-vfp-hflt/bin"

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