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Hello fellow Ubuntu users,

I am trying to learn how to write modifications to Minecraft. In order to follow the tutorial I am using, I need to run a "gradlew". The command is as follows

./gradlew setupDecompWorkspace eclipse

This yields the following

ERROR: JAVA_HOME is set to an invalid directory: /usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_20

Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
location of your Java installation.

Obviously I don't know what to do or even what this means. Any help is much appreciated.

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Before running the command try entering:

export JAVA_HOME="path_to_java_home"

Where path_to_java_home is the folder where your bin/java is.

If java is properly installed you can find it's location, by using the command:

readlink -f $(which java)

Don't forget to remove bin/java from the end of the path while putting it into JAVA_HOME

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  • Okay, I did what you said, however, it yields the same results except the path has changed. – Joseph_carp Nov 27 '14 at 21:09
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    If you run $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -version after export, does it work fine showing the java version? – Andrew Onischuk Nov 27 '14 at 21:11
  • $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -version yields bash: /usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_20/bin/java: No such file or directory – Joseph_carp Nov 27 '14 at 21:13
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    seems like your export is wrong. Please show export command you used. And also show the readlink -f $(which java) output – Andrew Onischuk Nov 27 '14 at 21:14
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    you should set it to the folder where bin/java is meaning export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre" not export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java" – Andrew Onischuk Nov 27 '14 at 21:20
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To make it automatic on Linux/Ubuntu, add these lines at the end of your .bashrc:

JAVA_HOME=$(dirname $( readlink -f $(which java) ))
JAVA_HOME=$(realpath "$JAVA_HOME"/../)
export JAVA_HOME

This gets java executable, then climbs up a directory level

To designate the default java version/executable on Debian/Ubuntu, run this once:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

This builds up on previous answer by Andrew Onischuk (thanks!)

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  • Its work like a charm. It solved my problem after 3 days. – Hitesh Sarsava Sep 17 '19 at 10:11
  • Best answer! Thanks mate. – Tshilidzi Mudau Dec 30 '20 at 11:41
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Get your Java path using the command

whereis java

The following is a possible output depending on your default Java version

java: /usr/bin/java /usr/share/java /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_241/jre/bin/java

Maven need to pick the Java location (home) so you can export the Java path using the following command

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_241/jre

This will allow Maven to pick the java version and location in the /etc/environment file

Optionally you can add this in the /etc/environment manually using the following command

sudo nano /etc/environment

and edit the JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.8.0_241/jre/

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Try to edit /usr/bin/gradle

Comment the line "export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java" with a #

this: #export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java

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Run with sudo

sudo ./gradlew setupDecompWorkspace eclipse

You are not a sudo doer for running this command

So Add sudo to it.

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