On 1/3/16 1:00 AM, Chris Schram wrote: > In article <1ca8ee46-978a-4131-8168-94f1ca360...@gmail.com>, > Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On Jan 2, 2016, at 05:49, Hanspeter Niederstrasser <f...@snaggledworks.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> On 1/2/16 3:50 AM, Chris Schram wrote: >>>> fink update-all tells me I need to update virtuoso. However the is >>>> failing because it seems to want java 7. I went from the Apple-supplied >>>> Java 6 to Oracle's Java 8. Java 7 never existed on this Mac. Oracle >>>> apparently no longer offers Java 7 as a free download. What to do? >>> >>> I apologize for that. The java availability situation on OS X is the >>> pits. Do you still have java6 installed on that machine? If so, would >>> you be willing to try a couple simple tests on the virtuoso package so >>> that I can get this cleaned up? >>> >>> Hanspeter >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> -- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Fink-beginners mailing list >>> Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net >>> List archive: >>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners >>> Subscription management: >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners >> >> I saw Java 1.7 here: >> >> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260 >> .html >> >> That being said, virtuoso would still need to be coerced not to use the >> newest Java available. > > Man, you must have some serious Oracle-fu. I couldn't find a Java 7 > download to save my life. ;-) > > Now, the others here want me to re-install Java 6 from Apple and see > what happens. When I first unsuccessfully tried to update virtuoso, I > had Apple's Java 6 installed. Then I tried Java 8 to see what that would > do. Nada. I'm not so sure I want to go back to Java 6 to run more tests.
The Java 6 test request would only be if you already have it installed. If you had to fight to uninstall it, I definitely don't want you to need to reinstall it just to test some things. I know Java is very painful to deal with (at work I need to have specific 6, 7, & 8 subversions installed for different vendor provided programs) Unfortunately, virtuoso can only work with java 5-7. There doesn't seem to even be any work upstream to make it work with Java 8. There's a newer upstream of virtuoso, but that also only works with Java 5-7. I can upgrade to this newer Virtuoso version and remove the Java dependency/features completely but I don't actually use Virtuoso, I only deal with it as a dependency of another program. Chris, in your use, do you actually use the Java parts of virtuoso? Do you know if they're important? Hanspeter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
