IT people won't install Gephi bc of Java problems

[bfbraum]

All,

I'm trying to use Gephi in an online course on data visualization, but my IT folks won't install it on the lab computers. The response I get is,

There is a problem with Gephi. It requires an older version of Java to work. There have been numerous security problems with Java which have been fixed by updates, so for security reasons we need to keep the latest Java version installed. The developers are aware of this and are working on it. Hopefully this will be fixed before fall term.

Fall term is upon us... is there any prospect that I'll be able to use the program soon?

Thanks!
Bear Braumoeller
The Ohio State University

[admin]

Hi,

We are working on a solution: currently one of our libraries requires an old version of Java to work propertly on Mac OS. It is a low-level component and we had difficulties in upgrading it, however you can test the development version of Gephi on a Mac with Java 7 and see if it works:
https://github.com/gephi/gephi

[JoseManuel]

Hi,
Has this issue with Java 7 in Mac 10.8.5 been solved?
Please let me know?
Thanks!

[Sarah2640]

Hey guys, i seem to be having this same problem and i don't know whether its my version of Java, my mac, Gephi or what

I don't suppose anyone else is having this same problem still?! Thanks

Sarah

[stesin]

Got the same problem here on Windows machine. We are all-Java-1.7 shop and freshly downloaded Gephi uses 1.6. This way Neo4j plugin does not work, it requires 1.7.

[Kurtz30]

Hi, Just wondering if there is an update for OSX Java issue? Im having the same problem with the Neo4j plugin.

Also concerned with the general security issues of running the old version of Java in general.

[blue.bear]

This java problem might be huge. Do you know any replacament for Gephi?

[JimBiard]

Hi.

I was just having this same problem, and I discovered that if you edit the gephi/etc/gephi.conf file to specify the location of your 1.7 JDK folder (jdkhome), then everything seems to work fine. The line in the file is

#jdkhome="/path/to/jdk"

Change it to

jdkhome="/usr/lib/jdk1.7.0_55"

or whatever is appropriate for your platform. Be sure to remove the '#' from the beginning of the line.

[Olivander]

Hi.

I was just having this same problem, and I discovered that if you edit the gephi/etc/gephi.conf file to specify the location of your 1.7 JDK folder (jdkhome), then everything seems to work fine. The line in the file is

#jdkhome="/path/to/jdk"

Change it to

jdkhome="/usr/lib/jdk1.7.0_55"

or whatever is appropriate for your platform. Be sure to remove the '#' from the beginning of the line.

Jim I tried that but it didn't work for me. Are there any other steps I'm missing?