I am having an issue with Java in my Mac (OS X 10.7.3). Previously I installed it and it was working fine. After some changes in the .bash_profile and .profile file in the course of time, I am having an error like Unable to locate an executable at "/usr/bin/java/bin/java"
whenever I try to run "javac" or "java" in my terminal.
echo $PATH
gives an output like:
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Users/sabya/Documents/Play_Framework/play-2.0:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/local/git/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin
My .bash_profile looks like:
alias start_mysql="/Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM start"
alias stop_mysql="/Library/StartupItems/MySQLCOM/MySQLCOM stop"
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/bin/java
Its bugging me for several days and reinstalling Java did not help. I'm a newbie in Mac and need help to sort out this issue. I Googled before posting this question but did not find anything relevant.
Best Answer
You probably can just remove the definition of JAVA_HOME from
.bash_profile
and restart the shell. If you really need to set the variable, useto define it dynamically depending on the installed JDK version or
to use the default place (which is symlinked to the above path).