Info Requested: Java Dependencies for Tex Users Group software

Joseph Wright joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Tue Dec 8 18:16:40 CET 2020


On 08/12/2020 16:16, JEFF NGUYEN via texhax wrote:
> Tex Users Group,
> 
> I am inquiring if the following software needs Oracle Java installed to function properly. Is Java a prerequisite for the software? If so, will the software work with OpenJDK or another flavor of Java?
> 
>          Tex Live Version 2019
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Jeff Nguyen
> 

TeX Live has no 'global' external dependencies. Some tools, most notably 
arara, do use Java, but one can use TeX without them. (The current 
release is TL'20.)

Joseph


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