How to set ANT_HOME on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04?

Question

It looks like Ubuntu uses ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.pam_profile, /etc/environment, and /etc/profile in very

Answer 1

To read the variable from java, use System.getenv().get("ANT_HOME"). Read more about it here.

As for where to set it, I prefer using ~/.bashrc, unless you're going to run your program from other users, or with sudo. Then you should use /etc/environment