Re: [LUG] Not-so-simple install ?

Robin,
That short cut command seems to work fine in a Launcher. The java -jar prefix seemed to be the thing that made the difference.

Thanks very much!

Jack.

> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:43:28 +0100
> From: robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx
> To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [LUG] Not-so-simple install ?
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jack Oley <jackoley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi all. Further to my struggles with a shortcut to an .sh file, it has
> > (slowly) dawned on me that what I actually need to do is to install the app
> > (Eldy) from the tarball (.gz) what I downloaded. Instructions on the Ubuntu
> > site are complex and did not work (there is no config file). Can anyone
> > tell me how I install from this file, please? As ever, many thanks. Jack.
>
> I may have missed an earlier thread of context here and be talking
> about something completely different but it looks like the eldy tar
> ball is java binaries. I expect the ubuntu instructions you found were
> relating to building a package from a source tar ball where the usual
> case is to run ./configure then make etc . In the case of eldy you
> just need to unpack that tarball somewhere convenient and create a
> short cut to the main jar file. you may need to make the shortcut
> involve the java runtime with a command like "java -jar
> /path/to/wherever/you/installed/it/eldy/eldy.jar" But i would hope any
> modern distro would already know how to execute a jar file ( assuming
> you also of cause have the java run time installed). If you don't have
> java installed you need to "apt-get install sun-java6-jre" or use your
> favorite package manager.
>
> Robin
>
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