Comment 2 for bug 1799106

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 02:23:08 -0000, pauljohn32 wrote:

> On askubuntu.com, user asks about jabref error. On 18.10, jabref wont'
> start due to missing java modules. I answered that java 8 is required:
> https://askubuntu.com/a/1085678/495717. When java 11 is installed at
> same time, jabref won't start.

Now that openjdk-11 has arrived in Debian unstable, I can confirm the
problems.

> In my checking, one must actually remove java 11.

I doubt that. For me the following works:

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

If it doesn't please provide the output of

DEBUG_WRAPPER=1 JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/ jabref --debug

> I wonder if the version of java could be specified differently in the
> Ubuntu wrapping to solve this.

Right, seems like we have to do some java version finetuning again :/

Cheers,
gregor, one of the jabref maintainers in Debian

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