I've tried setting the evironment variable ACTIVEMQ_HOME to the folder where I've extracted ActiveMQ without the trailing slash.
Now the double slashes are gone, but it still doesn't work. > $ ./activemq console INFO: Loading '/etc/default/activemq' INFO: Using java '/usr/bin/java' INFO: Starting in foreground, this is just for debugging purposes (stop process by pressing CTRL+C) INFO: Creating pidfile /home/nico/activemq/apache-activemq-5.13.1/data/activemq.pid ./activemq: 356: exec: "/usr/bin/java" -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties -Djava.security.auth.login.config=/home/nico/activemq/apache-activemq-5.13.1/conf/login.config -Djava.awt.headless=true -Djava.io.tmpdir="/home/nico/activemq/apache-activemq-5.13.1/tmp" -Dactivemq.classpath="/home/nico/activemq/apache-activemq-5.13.1/conf:/home/nico/activemq/apache-activemq-5.13.1/../lib/:" -Dactivemq.home="/home/nico/activemq/apache-activemq-5.13.1" -Dactivemq.base="/home/nico/activemq/apache-activemq-5.13.1" -Dactivemq.conf="/home/nico/activemq/apache-activemq-5.13.1/conf" -Dactivemq.data="/home/nico/activemq/apache-activemq-5.13.1/data" -jar "/home/nico/activemq/apache-activemq-5.13.1/bin/activemq.jar" start : not found -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-not-starting-tp4708599p4708625.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.