Re: Octave 4 installer doesn't detect JRE at install time

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> Hi all,
> 
> Today I downloaded and installed the Octave 4.0 release from here 
> https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/octave/windows/, but got a warning about not 
> detecting the java runtime environment. This was true - it wasn't installed, 
> so I went and grabbed the JRE and JDK (64-bit, version 8 update 45), rebooted 
> windows, and tried to install Octave again. But, the installer still threw 
> the warnings about not detecting the JRE. I accepted all the defaults during 
> installation of the JRE and JDK, and installed in the standard path 
> (C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.8.0_45). Any idea what I need to do to get Octave 
> to detect the JRE at install time? The Java integration was something I was 
> quite looking forward to!
> 
> Thanks in advance (hope I'm not missing the obvious!)
> 
> - Will

I have not experienced the jre detection problem. Did you reboot your computer 
after the jre was installed?

Tatsuro