java broken? cant install jedit

Tyir · 11-30-2003, 03:46 PM

I installed slackware9.1 very recently
I dled the jedit41install.jar file from the offical website
then

Code:

root@MOFETTE:/slackpack# java -jar jedit41install.jar 
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable.
        at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.initDisplay(Native Method)
        at sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment.<clinit>(X11GraphicsEnvironment.java:134)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:141)
        at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:62)
        at java.awt.Font.initializeFont(Font.java:308)
        at java.awt.Font.<init>(Font.java:344)
        at javax.swing.plaf.FontUIResource.<init>(FontUIResource.java:36)
        at installer.JEditMetalTheme.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at installer.Install.main(Unknown Source)

What does this mean?

Tyir · 11-30-2003, 03:49 PM

Ok what i did was
java -jar foo.jar text

so it did the install and text mode

and it worked
but why did i have to do that?