[PLUG] Need new Java

King Beowulf kingbeowulf at gmail.com
Mon Apr 13 02:07:19 UTC 2015


On 04/12/2015 10:40 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I have downloaded a Java application from here:
> 
> http://www.cognitial.com/flashpap/flashpap.htm
> 
> But when I try to run it from the command line with java -jar I get a
> popup that says I need a newer version of Java runtime. My Xubuntu
> 14.04.1 is up to date with everything that showed up in Synaptic as
> upgradable when I searched on "java," although there are other upgrades
> available that I haven't installed.
> 
> I could use some clues.

The Java 7 (either jre or jdk) that comes with your distro should work
fine.  I'm running on that is older than yours:

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_71"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_71-b14)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.71-b01, mixed mode)

$ java -jar FlashPAP.jar
Program started.

The GUI pops up although I don't have the hardware to test functionality.

Your issue is not your Java version, but XUbuntu screwed up something so
that the jar file can't find the version string. You may also have a
64/32 bit issue - depending on which java runtime architecture you
installed, Try :

java -d32 -jar FlashPAP.jar
java -d64 -jar FlashPAP.jar

or try forcing the version from the "java -version" build string:

$ java -version:"1.7.0_71-b14" -jar FlashPAP.jar

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Slackware64 14.1 multilib
Xfce 4.8

-Ed



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