Unable to locate a Java Runtime that supports javac

[maddalena06]

Hello community.
I'm Maddalena, a third-year high school student.

At school I am learning Java with Geany.
To practice, I installed Geany 1.38 on my MacBook Pro M1 MacOS Big Sur

I have a problem and I don't know how to fix it:

"The operation could’t be completed. Unable to locate a Java Runtime that support javac.
Please visit http://www.java.com/ per information on installing java"

From the java site I downloaded java and then installed it but it doesn't work. When I run the Geany compiler it doesn't work.

Please help me and tell me step by step what to do.

Thank you very much.

[elextr]

Does the javac command work at the command line?

[maddalena06]

Hi alextr,
I opened the terminal and typed javac.
Please could you tell me step by step what to do?
Thank you very much.

[elextr]

The problem would appear to be with the install of java, not anything to do with Geany. Not sure there are any java experts in the Geany community, you might be better to ask on a java forum.

[maddalena06]

Thank you.