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

[Murray Eisenberg]

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.)



> 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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