[PLUG] Do people use Java Web start with Ubuntu?

glen e. p. ropella gepr at tempusdictum.com
Thu Feb 26 20:04:01 UTC 2009


Thus spake Ted Kubaska circa 26/02/09 11:14 AM:
> Do people use Java Web start with Ubuntu? I'm running Hardy and I did  
> get it to work, but it does not work out of the box. I wanted to run  
> the example at
>   http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javawebstart/demos.html
> I have Sun's Java ... not the one that comes with Ubuntu.

Webstart works for me on Ubuntu Intrepid.  But I had problems with both
old applications like Matlab as well as Netbeans.  The route I took was
to downgrade to libx11-6 1.1.1.1 (Gutsy, I think).  See:

http://blog.tempusdictum.com/index.php/gepr/uncategorized/matlab-c-api-engdemoc-and-jmatlink-cant-start-matlab-engine

> To get this to work I had to
> 1.
> As root go to my /opt/sunjava6_u3/jdk1.6.0+03/jre/lib/i386/xawt (which
> is just where I installed java) and issue
> 
> sed -i 's/XINERAMA/FAKEEXTN/g' libmawt.so
> Reasons for this I somewhat but do not fully understand.

This apparently doesn't work if you have a Hardy or Intrepid X11... at
least it didn't work for me.  Or, perhaps it does and I just didn't do
it right.  I kept getting problems with libxcb.

-- 
glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com




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