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

[John Frain]

Tatsuro,

I have installed 32-bit java JRE, uninstalled octave and reinstalled
it and all is OK. Thanks.

John
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On 7 June 2015 at 00:30, Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: John Frain
>> To: Philip Nienhuis
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: 2015/6/7, Sun 07:33
>> Subject: Re: Fwd: Octave 4 installer doesn't detect JRE at install time
>>
>> John C Frain, Ph.D.
>>
>> Economics Department             3 Aranleigh Park
>> Trinity College Dublin                 Rathfarnham
>> College Green                           Dublin 14
>> Dublin 2                                    Ireland
>> Ireland
>> www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.htm
>> mailto:address@hidden
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>>
>>
>> On 6 June 2015 at 21:40, Philip Nienhuis <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>  John Frain wrote
>>>>  John C Frain, Ph.D.
>>>>  <snip>
>>>>>  What does (in the Octave terminal)
>>>>>
>>>>>  system ("java -version")
>>>>>
>>>>>  tell you?
>>>>  <snip>
>>>>  In octave when I enter
>>>>
>>>>>>  java -version
>>>>  error: 'java' undefined near line 1 column 1
>>>>>>
>>>
>>>  Please read again.
>>>
>>>  What does (in an Octave terminal)
>>>
>>>  system ("java -version")
>>>
>>>  return ?
>>>
>>>  Philip
>>>
>>
>> Sorry - I don't know what I was thinking about.
>>
>>>>  system("java -version")
>> java version "1.8.0_20"
>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_20-b26)
>> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.20-b23, mixed mode)
>> ans = 0
>>>>
>>
>> Octave is installed in C:\Octave\Octave-4.0.0\
>
>
>> John C Frain, Ph.D.
>
> John
>
> Please also install 32 bit version JRE.
> (Oracle java allows dual install 32 and 64 bit JREs. )
>
> Octave-4.0.0 windows binary distributed on octave ftp site is a 32 bit
> application.
>
> I do not believe that it works with the 64 bit JRE.
>
> Tatsuro
>