Hi Michael! Michael Yang wrote: > One another thing: I put the variable JAVA_HOME in /etc/profile or > $HOME/.bash_profile file, but I can't get the value in terminal until > manually source the file: > # source /etc/profile > # cat /etc/profile > > ........ > JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun; export JAVA_HOME > CLASSPATH=$JAVA_HOME/lib; export CLASSPATH > PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH; > export PATH > ....... > > I use rxvt as my terminal. I have to manually source the profile > before running the java program in terminal.
It's not important which terminal emulator you use, but which shell. In the case of bash you can put the above lines into your ~/.bashrc. Don't forget to restart your session, so that the values are passed over to your environment. Regards, Tobias
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