How Do I Change the Default Java Path in Linux?
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How do I change the default java version in Linux?

Choose your default Java Version. sudo update-java-alternatives -s $(sudo update-java-alternatives -l | grep 8 | cut -d ” ” -f1) || echo ‘. ‘ It will automatically fetch any java 8 version available and set it using the command update-java-alternatives .

Where is default java path in Linux?

This depends a bit from your package system … if the java command works, you can type readlink -f $(which java) to find the location of the java command. On the OpenSUSE system I’m on now it returns /usr/lib64/jvm/java-1.6. 0-openjdk-1.6. 0/jre/bin/java (but this is not a system which uses apt-get ).

Sophia Al-Mansoor

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