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

[Murray Eisenberg]

But note that, if you have the more secure Java 8 installed, Java 6 and 8 runtimes will conflict in recent versions of OS X, where only one Java runtime is allowed to be active.

One can still use java 8 yet “fool" some legacy apps into using Java 6, as instructed at:

     https://oliverdowling.com.au/2015/10/09/oracles-jdk-8-on-mac-os-x-el-capitan/ <https://oliverdowling.com.au/2015/10/09/oracles-jdk-8-on-mac-os-x-el-capitan/>   [for JDK]

    https://oliverdowling.com.au/2015/10/09/oracles-jre-8-on-mac-os-x-el-capitan/ <https://oliverdowling.com.au/2015/10/09/oracles-jre-8-on-mac-os-x-el-capitan/>  [for just JRE]

Not sure whether octave with its default variant +java will be so fooled..

> On May 24, 2016, at 12:20 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On May 24, 2016, at 10:48 AM, Marius Schamschula wrote:
> 
>> Java SE 6 is apparently no longer on Apple’s servers (I looked for it a week or two ago).
> 
> Java SE 6 for OS X 10.7 Lion through OS X 10.11 El Capitan:
> 
> https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572
> 
> For Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard:
> 
> https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1573
> 
> For Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard:
> 
> https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1359
> 

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