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Stephane
Stephane

Reputation: 12790

JDK 8+ is required while the path is pointing to version 0

When I open VSCode a tab shows the following:

#   Path
1   ~/programs/jdk-12.0.1 CurrentInvalid
JDK 8+ is required while the path is pointing to version 0

The terminal shows the version:

$ javac -version 
javac 12.0.1
$ echo $JAVA_HOME
/home/stephane/programs/jdk-12.0.1
$ whereis javac
javac: /home/stephane/programs/jdk1.12.0.1/bin/javac

The .profile file contains:

export JAVA_HOME=$HOME/programs/jdk-12.0.1
export JAVA_PATH=$JAVA_HOME
export JAVA_OPTS=""
export CLASSPATH=.:$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/rt.jar
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin

I tried renaming the directory to jdk1.12.0.1 but it changed nothing to the error:

1   ~/programs/jdk1.12.0.1 CurrentInvalid
JDK 8+ is required while the path is pointing to version 0

Why is VSCode 1.38.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 not accepting my Java version ?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1249

Answers (1)

Stephane
Stephane

Reputation: 12790

I changed the SDK to jdk-11.0.5 and still had the exact same issue.

The settings could not find it in ~/programs/jdk-11.0.5 too.

Only when I replaced the ~ with the absolute path as in /home/stephane/programs/jdk-11.0.5 and closed and restarted the editor, did it work.

Note too that the suggested restart with the editor notification seemed not to update the settings change. I had to close the editor and open it again for the settings change to be seen by the editor.

Upvotes: 2

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