Today I had yet another occasion to build up a Windows workstation from scratch. When I got to the step of installing Octave (4.2.1) the installer told me it couldn't fine a Java JRE, even though I have Java 9.0.1 installed, as evidenced by the output of
> java -version
Is that anything for me to worry about? At first glance, it looks normal (working GUI, working plots).
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Daryl Lee
Hi there Daryl,
There should be (mostly) no issue. We ran Octave 4.2.1 on super computers for months without Java due to a broken link. You obviously however, can’t use Java based components.
I had a patch made at one point to let you change the Java directory at run time (rather now it is set at compile time afaik) but I don’t think anyone was interested in it.
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