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whitetimer

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Registered: 2010-05-23

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[ SOLVED ] Setting IDEA_JDK as an environment variable

Hi All

I am wanting to run IntelliJ Idea on arch and would like some advice as to the best location to set the IDEA_JDK Environment Variable please ?

Many Thanks

Last edited by whitetimer (2010-10-26 19:00:30)

skunktrader

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Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Setting IDEA_JDK as an environment variable

I believe this package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31282 does it the correct way

whitetimer

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Setting IDEA_JDK as an environment variable

Hi Skunktrader

I have tried setting the enviroment variable in ~/.bashrc and it does not see it ... In Ubuntu it was /etc/bash.bashrc so is this still the case in Arch ?

skunktrader

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Setting IDEA_JDK as an environment variable

If you placed it in ~/.bashrc, did you remember to logout and login again?

You should really create a script and place it in /etc/profile.d if you want the change to be applied to multiple users.

See the all knowing wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Startup_files

whitetimer

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Re: [ SOLVED ] Setting IDEA_JDK as an environment variable

It seems it does now work in .bashrc afterall ....

So loving ARCHLINUX