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 #### Junit
 Junit is included in the LOCKSS source distribution, but the Ant targets that invoke JUnit (test-xxx) require the JUnit jar to be on Ant's classpath.  The easiest way to do that is to copy lib/junit.jar into Ant's lib directory (\<ant-install-dir\>/ant/lib) or your local .ant/lib directory.
 
-##### JAVAHOME Environment variable
-For some of the tools the JAVAHOME env var must be set to the directory in which the JDK is installed.  (I.e., it's expected that tools.jar can be found in $JAVAHOME/lib)
+##### JAVA_HOME Environment variable
+For some of the tools the JAVA_HOME env var must be set to the directory in which the JDK is installed.  (I.e., it's expected that tools.jar can be found in $JAVA_HOME/lib)
 
 ### To Build
 -`ant test-all`