cassandra 2 complaining about Java 7 when I have Java 7 installed

Question

$ cassandra 
Cassandra 2.0 and later require Java 7 or later.

OK, what\'s going on in that part of the init script?

java_ver_output=`\         


        

Answer 1

I have faced a similar issue when installing DSE 4.6 on Linux. Issue is resolved when you set JAVA_HOME (as root) to the directory where JRE 1.7.x installed.