Unable to locate an executable at “/usr/bin/java/bin/java” (-1)

Question

I am having a pathetic issue with Java in my mac osx 10.7.3 . Previously I installed it and it was working fine. After some changes in the .bash_profile and .profile file in

Answer 1

JAVA_HOME is not the name of the java executable. But of the directory, java was installed in. The executable should be $JAVA_HOME/bin/java.

The which command is not helpful for you there. It will not give you the java home, but most likely this is just a wrapper or symlink to java installed in a very different directory.

Answer 2

In MacOS Catalina, run

sudo nano ~/.bash_profile

In bash_profile, add:

export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
source ~/.bash_profile

Verify by running java --version