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Jpowder will not install on RedHat Linux #29

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
From user trying to install Jpowder at ESRF, Grenoble

On the beamline workstation, it doesn't work (using firefox).
When I try to download, I have the option of running it using firefox, or 
saving. Running with firefox just opens a blank tab. Saving saves a jnlp file. 
When opening this with firefox the little window reappears asking whether to 
save or run with firefox...... I saved the jnlp file in a random subdirectory, 
(not wanting to save it where it might screw something up...users would not be 
too ecstatic.  

Fix this and test Jpowder on a number of none Windows PCs

Original issue reported on code.google.com by anders.m...@stfc.ac.uk on 2 Jul 2010 at 5:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The jnlp works on Fedora 11 box also using Firefox.

This sounds like more of an issue with linux not knowing how to open the file, 
rather than a bug in jpowder.

Fedora comes with a program called IcedTea Web Start which it uses to run the 
jnlp, this person may need to install something similar.

Original comment by dbad...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2010 at 10:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
One of the referees to the Jpowder paper writes:

"when the installation of Jpowder is straightforward for windows platform, its 
installation for
Ubuntu and Fedora linux distributions was not possible."

What is going on here!!!! - Java I thought was suppose to be platform 
independent!!??

Basically, when downloading Jpowder from www.jpowder.org there need to be 
some checks / work-arounds which check that that a supported JVM is installed 
on a given Linux system, since surely if this is the case Jpowder should work!!!

Original comment by anders.m...@stfc.ac.uk on 17 Sep 2010 at 6:50

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by anders.m...@stfc.ac.uk on 14 Oct 2010 at 10:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I meant to mention that .jnlp file was updated, line removed with 
OpenJDK/IcedTea did not like but Sun Java did not have a problem with (and this 
line by the way did not do anything). In addition the www.jpowder.org has been 
updated with improved documentation for how to install on Linux

Original comment by anders.m...@stfc.ac.uk on 14 Oct 2010 at 10:04