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> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Harry Bullen <
hbullen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Personally I really, really dislike the idea of asking someone
>> download your copy of the jre in linux. Because all popular distos
>> now have very good package managment it is much better to say do
>> apt-get install jai-imageio then to force someone to download another
>> whole jre. Besides being a time consuming waste of bandwidth it
>> prevents the user form upgrading. The current version of java
>> 1.6.0_11 while we are still force everyone to use 1.6.0_04. This
>> would be even worse if there had been a major security vulnerability
>> discovered in java. A user could upgrade their regular java an think
>> they are safe and then still be affected by the problem in the uDig
>> jre. So actually the best thing to do would be to submit udig to the
>> various distros mainlly Debian and Red Hat (and Gentoo) and then
>> people can just go "sudo apt-get insall udig" to install udig.
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Jody Garnett <
jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > I have a few reports back that the linux download provided below does
>> > not
>> > work.
>> >
>> > I expect that it probably wants a jre/ folder to be copied into the udig
>> > folder...or for Java to be available on the system?
>> >
>> > I would like to ask someone to try .....
>> > 1. download the linux zip
>> > 2. unzip it
>> > 3. unzip the following jre into it
>> >
>> >
http://udig.refractions.net/files/downloads/jre/jre1.6.0_04.linux.x86.zip
>> >
>> > Actually one of the fun parts of uDig 1.2 is all the image-io ext stuff
>> > being included in the jre; I have this available for the windows users
>> > but
>> > we will need someone with access to linux to bundle everything up for
>> > the
>> > linux community as per the instructions here:
>> >
>> >
http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/ADMIN/04+Java+Runtime+Environment
>> >
>> > Jody
>> > Silvia Franceschi wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks Jody,
>> >> I downloaded the mac version and it started, so I can start also to do
>> >> the
>> >> walkthroug.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the big work you all are doing in uDig...
>> >>
>> >> Silvia
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Jody Garnett <
jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx
>> >> <mailto:
jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> During todays informal IRC chat (logs posted?) it was mentioned
>> >> that Silvia was stuck not being able to help until a linux or mac
>> >> release was made of uDig 1.2.
>> >> I had a go during the IRC chat and failed - because some kind of
>> >> equnox launcher was not "found" in my target platform...
>> >>
>> >> So here we go:
>> >> -
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
http://udig.refractions.net/files/downloads/udig-1.2-M1.linux.gtk.x86.zip
>> >> -
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
http://udig.refractions.net/files/downloads/udig-1.2-M1.macosx.carbon.x86.zip
>> >>
>> >> (Those files are uploading now ... no idea how long that will take)
>> >>
>> >> Turns out that although it was not actually my eclipse install -
>> >> which was my fear. Eclipse 3.4 has a new check box on the target
>> >> platform definition screen which controls how all the jars are
>> >> discovered- by default it ignores everything that does not work on
>> >> your machine - so the linux launcher was not included for me even
>> >> though I followed all the same steps as before.
>> >>
>> >> Un checking this box returned things to normal; and I was able to
>> >> make the linux and mac release.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> We need to update the ADMIN wiki space on defining a target
>> >> platform to include this step,
>> >> Jody
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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