Bug#893251: jabref 3.8 is started with OpenJDK 9 instead of 8

[gregor herrmann]

Control: forcemerge 890905 -1

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:32:16 +0100, Christian Buhtz wrote:

> JabRef is currently not working. 

True, this is already reported as #890905/#893138.
I ('m trying to) merge those two bugs.

> The script in /usr/bin/jabref requires
> "java8". But this need is ignored and version 9 is used. Because of that there
> are some errors.

It's not ignored, the problem is that openjdk-9 also provides the
java8 interface ... Cf. /usr/lib/java-wrappers/jvm-list.sh
 
> I don'T know how to make the installed JabRef run again with "java8".

You can run
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/ jabref


Cheers,
gregor

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