Getting “cat: /release: No such file or directory” when running scala

Question

I tried to install Scala 2.12.1 on my Mac (El Capitan) via Homebrew and also by downloading the binaries from https://www.scala-lang.org/download/.

In b

Answer 1

Opening up bin/scala, there's a line:

java_release="$(cat $JAVA_HOME/release | grep JAVA_VERSION)"

My $JAVA_HOME wasn't set. All fixed now.