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

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- 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.
> 
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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