[freenet-chat] Failed linux install

[Florent Daignière]

* Jano <alejandro at mosteo.com> [2008-06-05 17:11:07]:

> Florent Daignière wrote:
> 
> > * Jano <alejandro at mosteo.com> [2008-06-05
> > 16:51:22]:
> > 
> >> Jano wrote:
> >> 
> >> > I went to the freesite, clicked on the 'install' which launched the java
> >> > install.
> >> > 
> >> > I deselected all plugins, hit next, and in the last install step 7/7 the
> >> > message shown is:
> >> > 
> >> > Online installation mode
> >> > /home/user/fn07/node/bin/setup.sh: 36: java: not found
> >> > chmod: cannot access `lib/*': No such file or directory
> >> > 
> >> > Then it said 'installation failed' after hitting next.
> >> > 
> >> > This computer is ubuntu 8.04, java is installed (and I've run nodes here
> >> > before). If I go to some command line and issue 'java', it shows its help
> >> > as expected. In the firefox about:config page, java appears correctly
> >> > installed and detected.
> >> 
> >> Verified that going in all defaults (not touching the plugins) fails as
> >> well.
> >> 
> >> Doing the manual install from command line, using java -jar
> >> new_installer.jar, worked correctly.
> > 
> > It's probably because java web start has a cached version of the
> > installer locally.
> > 
> > try javaws -viewer and purge its cache
> 
> Our messages crossed, he.
> 
> OK, got the javaws viewer. There the freenet launcher appeared as 'executable
> when online'. In any case I deleted it, tried again, and the error happened
> again, though now twice:
> 
> Online installation mode
> Downloading the wrapper binaries
> /home/user/fn07/node2/bin/setup.sh: 36: java: not found
> /home/user/fn07/node2/bin/setup.sh: 37: java: not found
> chmod: cannot access `lib/*': No such file or directory
> 

Well that probably means that java is not in the system's default path
that's all... afaic that's not a freenet-related problem but a JVM/an OS
one.
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