A JRE or JDK must be available in order to run Eclipse. No JVM was found after searching the following locations

Question

Eclipse is unable to open, have used eclipse before and has open before without a problem. Now I keep getting the following error message:

A Java Runt

Answer 1

Moderately future proof example for Linux-like systems. Assuming javac installed and on your path.

./eclipse -vm dirname $(readlink -f $(which javac))

This will find the directory where javac is installed, and pass as vm argument to eclipse.