Ubuntu
java-common package

/usr/share/java-common/jvm-find.sh removed from java-common

Bug #398273 reported by Jared Luxenberg on 2009-07-11

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	java-common (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: java-common

The "/usr/share/java-common/jvm-find.sh" file has been removed from the java-common package. How should my scripts find JAVA_HOME for the default JVM now?

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Niels Thykier (niels-thykier) wrote on 2010-05-13:

default-jre-headless provides a default-java symlink in /usr/lib/jvm which is the "default java" for Debian and Ubuntu systems. Alternatively you can probably use a mix of readlink -f + dirname to find the JAVA_HOME for the current system (assuming there is no other java in path).

There has also been an interest in creating a sensible-java command[1], which might be useful for you. However it has not been implemented, there is a mail thread on it on the debian-java list[2].

~Niels

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Java/SensibleJava

[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2010/05/msg00014.html