The environment variable 'HOME' must be set Problem in Ubunt

[Slomo]

Hi

i recently reinstalled my ubuntu server (14.04), and wanted to use filebot the same way i did before.
I use pyload which starts a script after each download and package extraction.

the script looks like this

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#!/bin/bash


filebot -script fn:amc "/media/tobi/HDD7/Downloads/Finished" --output "/media/tobi/HDD7/" -non-strict --def artwork=n clean=y subtitles=en,de "seriesFormat=Series/{n}/{n} Season 0{s}/{n} {s00e00} - {t}" --conflict override  --log-file "/media/tobi/HDD7/filebot.log" >/media/tobi/HDD7/filebot_script.log

The last part i included for debugging, because if i run the script manually everything works just fine, but not if started by pyload (i hope this is the right forum for this, maybe pyload forum would be better?). In the file(filebot_script.log) , i redirect the output to, i get the line "The environment variable 'HOME' must be set" when the script is run.
I tried setting the environment variable as described on this page, but still no change.

i installed oracle java from this ppa. i've tried it with java 8 and 9 with same results.

Any ideas what i've forgotten or done wrong?

[rednoah]

Tip 1: Setting $JAVA_HOME won't fix $HOME not being set. That's two completely different things.

Tip 2: Learn the most basic bash skills. That includes knowing what $HOME means, and what export does.

e.g.

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#!/bin/bash
export HOME=/media/tobi # ASSUMING /media/tobi IS YOUR USER HOME
filebot ...

[Slomo]

Oh now i feel like an idiot, is just assumed, becaus its a java programm, that the $JAVA_HOME must be meant. Now everything works.

Thank you very much for your fast support