[Slackbuilds-users] OpenJDK11/openJFX11 and JabRef5.x

David O'Shaughnessy lists at osh.id.au
Wed Feb 12 23:06:25 UTC 2020


On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, at 7:28 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> JabRef-5.x requires JDK11. Oracle has split this into parts so the JavaFK
> part is now a separate package. A JabRef dev confirmed that it will run with
> openjdk11 and openjfx11. The SBo repository has a zulu-openjdk11-11.0.1-lts
> package, but the only openjfx package is version 8.
> 
> My request of the maintainers is to provide an openjfx package compatible
> with the zulu-openjdk-11.0.1 package, or any other openjdk11/openjfx11 pair,
> so JabRef on SBo can be upgraded from it's current very old version to 5.x.

The new beta version of JabRef 5 now bundles its own Java:
https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/releases

I can confirm that it runs on 14.2 as is (I extracted it to /opt/JabRef).

--
Dave


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