[SOLVED] jedit installed successfully on linux mint virtualbox but simply wont run!

shakozzz · 11-05-2014, 07:09 AM

Hey all! I'm sort of new to linux so it would be great if instructions are thorough

I installed jedit via a debian file and it has installed successfully. However when i run the jedit application there is no startup icon. The cursor just loads a bit(waiting) then…nothing. Any ideas? I’ve tried installing and re-installing many times with different installation packages but nothing. Im running linux mint on virtualbox.
Thanks a lot in advance.

repo · 11-05-2014, 07:10 AM

Try to start jedit from a terminal and look at the errormessages.

Kind regards

shakozzz · 11-05-2014, 07:23 AM

Hey Repo
I get this message:
/usr/local/bin/jedit: 24: exec: /usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_20/bin/java: not found
even though there is indeed a jedit exec file in that directory

repo · 11-05-2014, 07:31 AM

Try

Code:

apt-get install java-wrappers

Kind regards

shakozzz · 11-05-2014, 07:43 AM

Hey repo
So i tried what u said. It asked me if im root. so i used command "su" and logged in as root. Then typed your command again and it gave me this message:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
java-wrappers is already the newest version.
java-wrappers set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 441 not upgraded.

repo · 11-05-2014, 07:46 AM

Did you install jedit from a deb file you downloaded?
Try to install with apt-get

Code:

apt-get remove jedit
apt-get install jedit

Kind regards

repo · 11-05-2014, 07:49 AM

Do you have java installed?

Kind regards

shakozzz · 11-05-2014, 08:12 AM

yea but still gives the same message when i try to run jedit from the terminal:
/usr/local/bin/jedit: 24: exec: /usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_20/bin/java: not found
what do you think?

shakozzz · 11-05-2014, 08:14 AM

Is it a problem with the path maybe?

sgosnell · 11-05-2014, 08:38 AM

It's telling you that there is no java executable in /usr/local/java/jdk1.8.0_20/bin. I don't know why that is, because I don't use editors that require java, or anything else. I don't know how you installed java in the first place, or if you did.

shakozzz · 11-05-2014, 08:41 AM

Well the mistake is that there is no directory called jdk1.8.0_20 it is actually called jdk1.8.0_25 so the path is wrong. Can I change it so that the file is accessed from the correct path?

yancek · 11-05-2014, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Well the mistake is that there is no directory called jdk1.8.0_20 it is actually called jdk1.8.0_25 so the path is wrong

Since you get that message when running "/usr/local/bin/jedit" and you do have java installed, take a look in the jedit file for references to jdk1.8.0_20. Since the directory is actually "jdk1.8.0_25", change them to the correct one. I'm not sure why that would be the case if you just installed this software. If that doesn't work, I don't know what the problem is.

shakozzz · 11-05-2014, 04:34 PM

Thanks for the replies. The problem was that I had removed the OpenJDK and installed an Oracle JDK so the path changed but it remained the same for jedit.