Hadoop: «ERROR : JAVA_HOME is not set»

Question

I\'m trying to install Hadoop on Ubuntu 11.10. I set the JAVA_HOME variable in the file conf/hadoop-env.sh to:

# export JAVA_HOME=         


        

Answer 1

I tried the above solutions but the following worked on me

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/default

Answer 2

Here we provide simple steps to setup JAVA_HOME while installing of Hadoop

Step1: Goto Java library path /lib jvm

Then set the JAVA_HOME & PATH in .bashrc file

Source : http://commandstech.com/hadoop-error-java_home-is-not-set-and-could-not-be-found-in-hadoop-installation/

Step 2 : Once it is done then go with Hadoop env file then update it.

After once it is done then stop the daemons and start daemons once again.

Answer 3

The solution that worked for me was setting my JAVA_HOME in /etc/environment

Though JAVA_HOME can be set inside the /etc/profile files, the preferred location for JAVA_HOME or any system variable is /etc/environment.

Open /etc/environment in any text editor like nano or vim and add the following line:

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/your_java_directory"

Load the variables:

source /etc/environment

Check if the variable loaded correctly:

echo $JAVA_HOME

Answer 4

In some distributives(CentOS/OpenSuSe,...) will work only if you set JAVA_HOME in the /etc/environment.

Answer 5

You should set JAVA_HOME in the hadoop-env.sh file also which is in the Hadoop configuration directory. By default the JAVA_HOME setting line is commented.

Answer 6

Copy this export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk to hadoop-env.sh file.

JAVA_HOME is the location where java binaries are present.