newbie question regarding setting environment variables

I have ant install on Ubuntu 8.04.

When I try to run ant I get an error message, "Unable to locate tools.jar,
etc.".

I expect that I have to set JAVA_HME, but for the life of me I can not
figure out where or how.

I have checked the manual, the FAQ, etc. I guess I'm just being dense today.

Can someone help?

Thank you.

FDG

I expect that I have to set JAVA_HME, but for the life of me I can not
figure out where or how.

For a session you can type

JAVA_HME=<path to your java JDK>

Note that you have to set the path to your JDK, not the JRE.

Setting the path permanent, you can alter your ~/.profile
(in your /home/<usernamedir). Type here at the bottom

export JAVA_HME=<path to your java JDK>

and add optionally to your path

export PATH=JAVA_HME/bin:$PATH

Regards

Henning

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