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Matt
Matt

Reputation: 3557

Path variable not staying set

I'm working on setting up my development environment in Windows 7, installing Maven, etc. I've been running into path issues and have read, ad nauseum, other posts that pointed me in the right direction. My problem is, however, that my PATH variable (JAVA_HOME) isn't staying set.

When I try

mvn --version

I get

Error: JAVA_HOME not found in your environment.
Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the location
of your Java installation.

So, I set it

set JAVA_HOME=C:\Tools\Java

and then mvn --version works. But if I close and then reopen the Windows terminal I just end up getting the original error. Super frustrating.

I've also added that path to the Environmental Variables in the Systems Settings (with the semi-colon spacing, etc) Path section.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3584

Answers (4)

Amitesh Rai
Amitesh Rai

Reputation: 874

Go to System ->Advanced System Setting ->Environment Variables. In System Variables, Click on New and provide the Following:

Variable name as : JAVA_HOME

Variable Value as :E:/JdkInstallions/Jdk1.7 (as on my system)

This should resolve the problem you are getting.

Upvotes: 0

David Conrad
David Conrad

Reputation: 16359

To set environment variables in Windows, go to the System control panel (the quickest way is to right click Computer in the Start Menu and select Properties), and select Advanced system settings, and then Environment Variables...

Upvotes: 0

Peter Lawrey
Peter Lawrey

Reputation: 533462

This is how the shell works in Windows, Mac OSX and UNIX and I suspect all operating systems.

Each prompt has it's own environment which is separate to any other process you have running. You can set a variable temporarily, but this is not saved to disk or preserved because you might set it in a script but you don't want it to affect the whole system.

If you want to change an environment variable in Windows you need to do Start -> Right Click Computer -> Properties -> Advanced Setting -> Environment Variables -> Add Property.

On Linux, you add your SET line to the ~/.bashrc file

Upvotes: 2

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1499780

You're only setting it within that shell. This is perfectly normal behaviour for environment variables - not just on Windows, but on other OSes too.

I don't know about Windows 7, but on Windows 8 if I press the Windows key and start typing "Environment Variables" I get an option to open the control panel applet for editing the user or system environment variables. That's where you want to put it. The right dialog looks like this:

Environment Variables dialog

If the method above doesn't get to it, you can use the System Properties dialog, which has a button near the bottom for it:

System properties dialog

Upvotes: 3

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