Cassandra 3.0 and later require Java 8u40 or later

Question

I'm trying to run cassandra 3.0 in datastax. But i'm getting an error saying Cassandra 3.0 and later require Java 8u40 or later.

I have installed java and moved the jdk1.8.0_65 to /usr/local/java and set JAVA_HOME to /usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_65.

But I'm still facing the following error:

Cassandra 3.0 and later require Java 8u40 or later.

Answer 1

I also have same problem. My solution is editing file apache-cassandra-3.7/bin/cassandra. Below line that contain "#!/bin/sh" (2nd line) you can put line like below

JAVA_HOME="/path/of/your/jdk"

example :

JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.8.0_101"

Hope this solution can help you and other people