[aklug] Re: Java Question - Jin

On Tuesday 31 March 2009, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to get Jin (Java chess client) to run. It won't run because
> it needs to be using Sun Java instead of the GNU java implementation. I
> installed Sun Java 6 jre, but the program doesn't seem to know that.
>
> Here is the script that starts the program:
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>
> I commented out the part which checks the Java version, but then the
> program just starts but crashes immediately. How can I adjust this so that
> it uses Sun Java?

If it is crashing, it's not happy with the Java environment. Maybe it is
still using GCJ?

What does `java -version` get you?

Something like this is what you're after:

james@independence:~$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_12"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_12-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.2-b01, mixed mode)

If you don't get Sun's Java responding back, take a peek at the
update-alternatives command. (Or make sure that the only Java you have
installed is Sun's Java, then you don't have to worry about alternatives.)

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Received on Tue Mar 31 19:16:02 2009