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How to set JAVA_HOME environment variable on Mac

Note : This tip is for Mac OSX 10.5 or later Apple recommends to set the $JAVA_HOME variable to /usr/libexec/java_home , just export $JAVA_HOME in file ~/. bash_profile You might not have .bash_profile present on your system already. No worries we will create/update the profile in next step. Open Terminal: $ vi ~/.bash_profile Initially the vi editor will not be in edit mode, press 'i'. Update file by exporting variable: export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home) to the file (in the vi editor which we opened using the previous command) Saving and Closing the .bash_profile file opened inside vim editor: Press escape (while still inside the vi editor) type ":wq!" or press "Shift + zz" to save and exit the file.