<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I have octave installed with variants:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px;" class="">octave @4.0.2_0+app+atlas+docs+fltk+gfortran+graphicsmagick+java+qt4gui+sound</span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 12px;" class=""> </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I try to run octave from command line, I get pop-up window:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> ‘To open “this Java application” you need to</div><div class=""> install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Under OS X 10.11.5, I have Java JDK 1.8 (specifically, the current 1.8.0_91) and the corresponding Java runtime 1.8.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[While I know that I have Java 6 runtime actually present on my system, so it’s available to certain older apps that require it, the active Java runtime is Java 8 (1.8).]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is the best course simply to remove the +java variant for octave, or will I lose some substantial functionality?</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(I’m unsure why I installed with the +java variant in the first place!)</div><div class=""> <br class=""><div class="">
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