Tomcat not accepting JAVA_HOME in Ubuntu

Question

I'm trying to run Tomcat on the latest jdk and, after setting the path in /etc/proile, /etc/environment, etc/default/tomcat8, and a couple of other places, when I go to fire up Tomcat, it says:

     /opt/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh: 1: eval: /var/lib/jdk1.8.0_71/bin/java: not found

The reply for echo $JAVA_HOME is:

    /var/lib/java/jdk1.8.0_71/

and the reply for java -version is:

    java version "1.8.0_71"
    Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_71-b15)
    Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 25.71-b15, mixed mode)

What am I missing, please?

Answer 1

Try to do that like a sudo :

   sudo su vi /var/bash.bashrc 

And copy following:

   JAVA_HOME=/var/lib/java/jdk1.8.0_71
   export JAVA_HOME
   PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
   export PATH