java version in linux

Question

# which java
/usr/bin/which: no java in (/usr/local/jdk/jdk1.5.0_10/bin/java:/usr/local/jdk/jdk1.5.0_10/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin)

I installed java in /usr/local/jdk/jdk1.5.0_10 but cannot run java -version

I get this

$ java -version
-bash: /usr/bin/java: No such file or directory

this is red hat linux

Answer 1

It's not in your path.

use

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/jdk/jdk1.5.0_10/bin

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk/jdk1.5.0_10

Look at ~/.bash_profile for where to define this permanatly.