netbeans - Cannot find java. Please use the --jdkhome switch

Question

I have just installed Netbeans 8.0.2 on CentOS 6.5.

When I try to run it, I get the message

Cannot find java. Please use the --jdkhome switch

I have /usr/share/java-1.7.0 so I typed

/usr/local/netbeans-8.0.2/bin/netbeans --jdkhome /usr/share/java-1.7.0

and still got

Cannot find java. Please use the --jdkhome switch

I also have /root/Downloads/jdk1.8.0_40 which allowed me to install Netbeans. However, when I type

/usr/local/netbeans-8.0.2/bin/netbeans --jdkhome /root/Downloads/jdk1.8.0_40

I still get

Cannot find java. Please use the --jdkhome switch

I tried

whereis java

and got

java: /usr/bin/java /etc/java /usr/lib/java /usr/share/java /usr/share/man/man1/java.1.gz

However

/usr/local/netbeans-8.0.2/bin/netbeans --jdkhome /usr/bin/java

still produces

Cannot find java. Please use the --jdkhome switch.

Answer 1

I do recommend you to change the configuration of JDK used by NetBeans in netbeans.conf config file:

netbeans_jdkhome="C:Program FilesJava..."