I already looked in previous questions since it appears that my issue is quite common. However I still cannot solve this problem.When I run the IGV program I got this error:
Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try againException in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: org/broad/igv/ui/Main has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 55.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 52.0 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(LauncherHelper.java:495)
I checked java versions:
java -versionopenjdk version "1.8.0_152-release" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_152-release-1056-b12) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.152-b12, mixed mode) javac -versionjavac 1.8.0_152-release which java /home/sche/anaconda2/bin/java
If I understand correctly I needed to install a uptdated version of java (e.g. 11):so I tried:
sudo apt update sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk
however, still there is the old version
java -versionopenjdk version "1.8.0_152-release" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_152-release-1056-b12) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.152-b12, mixed mode)javac -version javac 1.8.0_152-release
I also tried manually with:
curl -O https://download.java.net/java/GA/jdk11/9/GPL/openjdk-11.0.2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz tar zxvf openjdk-11.0.2_linux-x64_bin.tar.gz sudo mv jdk-11* /usr/local/ sudo vim /etc/profile.d/jdk.shexport JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk-11.0.2export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin
I really don't understand how to solve this issuethanks for your help