openpreserve / jhove

File validation and characterisation.
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Make JHOVE less dependent on JAVA (as an external dependency) #865

Open RvanVeenendaal opened 1 year ago

RvanVeenendaal commented 1 year ago

As briefly discussed in person with Carl today. JHOVE depends on JAVA. When I installed Fedora Linux on a laptop, I think it came with a 'headless' JAVA install. JHOVE raised an error when I tried to start it with that JAVA version, so I changed my JAVA install to a 'normal' version. Also, on systems without JAVA, JHOVE won't work. It might be an idea to (also) provide a JHOVE version with JAVA included (cf. DROID).