Octave won't start, looks for legacy Java SE 6 runtime

[Murray Eisenberg]

I did the same, installing octave with -java variant. Finally, it’s working. 

Thanks to all who gave help in this thread.


> On May 24, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Marius Schamschula <lists at schamschula.com> wrote:
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> Murray,
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> On May 24, 2016, at 10:22 AM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Uh oh! Then how do I get octave to run at all, given that it requires the Java 6 runtime? (And I have Java 8 from Oracle as the active runtime.)
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>>> On May 24, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>>> On May 24, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
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>>>> (I’m unsure why I installed with the +java variant in the first place!)
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>>> Looks like +java is in octave's default variants, so you'd get it, unless you specifically disabled it.
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> I’ve run into this issue as well. Java SE 6 is apparently no longer on Apple’s servers (I looked for it a week or two ago). Java 8 and octave currently don’t work very well with each other (lots of discussion on #octave and the octave-dev mailing list over the last few weeks). I just have accepted that I must forgo java for the moment and built octave with the -java variant.
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> Marius
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> Marius Schamschula
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