%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy: pierre $ $Date: 2015-03-04 17:17:44 -0500 (Wed, 04 Mar 2015) $ After the package installation is complete, the next step is to make sure that the system can properly find the files. If you set up your login scripts as recommended in , update the environment by creating the openjdk.sh script, as the root user: cat > /etc/profile.d/openjdk.sh << "EOF" # Begin /etc/profile.d/openjdk.sh # Set JAVA_HOME directory JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk # Adjust PATH pathappend $JAVA_HOME/bin # Add to MANPATH pathappend $JAVA_HOME/man MANPATH # Auto Java CLASSPATH: Copy jar files to, or create symlinks in, the # /usr/share/java directory. Note that having gcj jars with OpenJDK 8 # may lead to errors. AUTO_CLASSPATH_DIR=/usr/share/java pathprepend . CLASSPATH for dir in `find ${AUTO_CLASSPATH_DIR} -type d 2>/dev/null`; do pathappend $dir CLASSPATH done for jar in `find ${AUTO_CLASSPATH_DIR} -name "*.jar" 2>/dev/null`; do pathappend $jar CLASSPATH done export JAVA_HOME unset AUTO_CLASSPATH_DIR dir jar # End /etc/profile.d/openjdk.sh EOF For allowing mandb to include the OpenJDK man pages in its database, issue, as the root user: cat >> /etc/man_db.conf << "EOF" && # Begin Java addition MANDATORY_MANPATH /opt/jdk/man MANPATH_MAP /opt/jdk/bin /opt/jdk/man MANDB_MAP /opt/jdk/man /var/cache/man/jdk # End Java addition EOF mkdir -p /var/cache/man mandb -c /opt/jdk/man The installation of the JRE Certificate Autority Certificates (cacerts) is described in the section. If you are using the binary version, those certificates may already be installed.