Confluent Error: set environment variable CONFLUENT_HOME

Question

I have installed confluent-7.0.0 on ubuntu 20.04.Followed the official documentation https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/quickstart/ce-docker-quickstart.html . I have added the path of confluent_home as shown below in .bashrc file.:

export PATH=/home/abc/confluent-7.0.0/bin:$PATH 
export PATH=$PATH:$CONFLUENT_HOME/bin

And run the command source ~/.bashrc. Now the problem is when I have started my services first time by confluent local services start it has up the services of zookeeper,kafka,schema registry,kafka-rest,connect and ksql but while starting control center it has aborted the operation. And now when I am running this command confluent local services start it is giving the following error:

The local commands are intended for a single-node development environment only,
NOT for production usage. https://docs.confluent.io/current/cli/index.html

Error: set environment variable CONFLUENT_HOME

Which else environment variable do I have to set and how?

Answer 1

The error says you need CONFLUENT_HOME variable set. You can set PATH after that

This is what you need

export CONFLUENT_HOME=/home/abc/confluent-7.0.0 
export PATH=$CONFLUENT_HOME/bin:$PATH