Autopsy on netbeans giving java version error

Question

I am trying to run autopsy on windows, netbeans. I am getting unsupported java version 13 Make sure that the java version is 1.8.0_66 or higher

https://github.com/sleuthkit/autopsy

I set up enviroment variables, and its not working.

When I echo %JAVA_HOME%

I am getting C:\\Programfiles/java/jre1.8.0_241

java -version prints 1.8.0_241

I also went to check netbeans.conf

found the property named “netbeans_jdkhome”. it is set correctly to Windows Systems, this might be C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk-13.0.2).

Build.xml

<condition property="supported-java-versions">
        <or>​
            <matches string="${java.version}" pattern="1\.8\.0_6[6-9]"/>​
            <matches string="${java.version}" pattern="1\.8\.0_[7-9][0-9]"/>​
            <matches string="${java.version}" pattern="1\.8\.0_[1-9][0-9][0-9]"/>​
            <matches string="${java.version}" pattern="1\.8\.[1-9]_[0-9][0-9]"/>​
            <equals arg1="${ant.java.version}" arg2="1.9"/>​
        </or>​
    </condition>

Answer 1

[This is not necessarily a solution to your problem, but is too long to post as a comment.]

You haven't specified your NetBeans version, but for all versions note that:

• NetBeans doesn't care at all about the settings of environment variables such as JAVA_HOME . They are completely irrelevant. Checking the value of java -version from the command line is also irrelevant; it proves/disproves nothing.
• NetBeans does care about the value of netbeans_jdkhome in netbeans.conf , and it will use it (if set).

In your case it seems that netbeans_jdkhome has a value that specifies the path to your JDK 13 installation. If you are running NetBeans 8.2 that is an invalid path since 8.2 does not support Java versions > 1.8. The fix is to edit netbeans.conf and set netbeans_jdkhome to specify the path to your Java 8 installation.

If you are not running NetBeans 8.x please update your question with details of your NetBeans installation. You can get that by copying and pasting the output from the Help > About window.