Where is jdk on linux

Active 3 months ago. Viewed k times. I needed to update my openJDK to 8 version Improve this question. Greenonline 1, 6 6 gold badges 16 16 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges.

Aleksey Timoshchenko Aleksey Timoshchenko 1 1 gold badge 7 7 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Videonauth Videonauth You need to dig into symbolic links. You could still dig deeper to find other symbolic links. Sinscary Sinscary 1, 8 8 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. See man update-alternatives for more. Judd Rogers Judd Rogers 41 1 1 bronze badge. Be aware of the possibility that people might have two JDK's installed.

Victor Tang Victor Tang 1. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. I don't really think this answers the question. This gave me mostly JDK6 even though java -version gave me 1. There was one link to the JDK8 folder near the top. You can list the installed files with rpm -ql packagename You will see somewhere a bin directory with java executable But if the JDK RPM was correctly installed you should already find java in you path.

Try javac MyFirstJavaClass. Matteo Matteo 9, 4 4 gold badges 45 45 silver badges 64 64 bronze badges. This should be the accepted answer IMO. Community Bot 1. Kevin Kevin 5 5 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. In general, I highly recommend using the mlocate package for finding things on a Red Hat based Linux's file system. The Overflow Blog. Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete?

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Linux Distribution : Debian 2. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Debian is the same. Improve this answer. Winnemucca It works for me, you can find where java is and then you can find where jdk path.

Show 1 more comment. This is debian specific at least. Other distros may not have this — dequis. AFAIK, it should be the same for all debian derivatives. I'm just pointing it out for other people. I know it's valid for this particular question. The Surrican The Surrican This does not actually point to a full JDK. It is a symlink, and even if you read the symlink, the binary is also not within a JDK. Use find to located it. Brent Worden Brent Worden 9, 7 7 gold badges 51 51 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges.

If not root admin you will get plenty of Permission Denied messages. To display all information regarding java alternatives --display java.

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