Where is the Java SDK folder in my computer? Ubuntu 12.04

I know it's installed because when I type:

$java -version

I get:

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.12.5) (6b27-1.12.5-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)

And when I type:

$locate jdk

I get:

/home/arturo/Documents/2012a/sys/java/jre/glnxa64/jre/lib/servicetag/jdk_header.png
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/openjdk-6-jre:openjdk-6-java.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/openjdk-7-jre:openjdk-7-java.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/icons/openjdk-6.png
/usr/share/app-install/icons/openjdk-7.png

What worries me about the first item in the list is that the 2012a folder is my MATLAB folder and not a standard 'usr/lib' folder. I'm really confused on where the JDK and JRE got installed, because I need to set the $JAVA_HOME path pointing to the folder. Where am I missing something?

WAY-1 : Updated for the shortest and easy way

Below command will give you the path, But it will only work if java command is working in other words if java path is configured.

readlink -f $(which java)

WAY-2 (Better than WAY-1) : Below answer is still working and try it if above command is not working for you.

You need to dig into symbolic links. Below is steps to get Java directory

Step 1:

$ whereis java
java: /usr/bin/java /etc/java /usr/share/java

That tells the command java resides in /usr/bin/java.

Dig again:

Step 2:

$ ls -l /usr/bin/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2009-01-15 18:34 /usr/bin/java -> /etc/alternatives/java

So, now we know that /usr/bin/java is actually a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/java.

Dig deeper using the same method above:

Step 3:

$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2009-01-15 18:34 /etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/local/jre1.6.0_07/bin/java

So, thats the actual location of java: /usr/local/jre.....

You could still dig deeper to find other symbolic links.

Reference : where is java's home dir?

Ngoc Nguyen

Please use this command:

readlink -f $(which java)

It works for me with Ubuntu gnome.

On my computer the result is:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/bin/java

Regards.

In generally, java gets installed at /usr/lib/jvm . That is where my sun jdk is installed. check if it is same for open jdk also.

Location of JRE in Ubuntu:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre

$whereis java
java: /usr/bin/java /usr/bin/X11/java /usr/share/java     /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz
$cd /usr/bin
$ls -l java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 15  2014 java -> /etc/alternatives/java
$ls -l /etc/alternatives/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr 15  2014 /etc/alternatives/java ->     /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/bin/java

So,JDK's real location is /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/

On Ubuntu 14.04, it is in /usr/lib/jvm/default-java.

$ whereis java

java: /usr/bin/java /usr/lib/java /usr/bin/X11/java /usr/share/java /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz

I found the solution to this with path name: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle

I'm on mint 18.1

Ubuntu_usuario

I am using Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS. In my case I had to open the file:

/home/[username]/netbeans-8.2/etc/netbeans.conf

And change the jdk location to:

netbeans_jdkhome="/opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0_152"

Then saved the file and re-run Netbeans. It worked for me.

you can simply write the following command in the terminal of your linux system and get the java path :- echo $JAVA_HOME

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16931327/where-is-the-java-sdk-folder-in-my-computer-ubuntu-12-04

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