Where in my /etc/profile do I add the following? Is it somewhere in the pathmunge area? After that you must modify your /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile file by adding PATH=..../bin:$PATH JDK_HOME=..., where .... is path to your JDK installation (something like /usr/java/....). export PATH JDK_HOME [ My path is /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_04 ]