installing Vassal on Ubuntu-eee linux

uckelman · April 8, 2009, 8:48pm

Thus spake “Farandir”:

I think it’s a classpath problem. Can you show me exactly how you’re
running VASSAL? (I.e., what are you typing into the terminal, what
directory are you in when you do it, what’s in that directory?)

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Farandir · April 9, 2009, 6:33am

I’ve started Vassal by typing:

WH40k/Vassal/vassal.sh

as this the directory into which I extracted the Vassal files. It is located on the “Eigene Disk”-drive, which seems to be my home directory. I’m not yet familiar with the linux file system, though.

uckelman · April 9, 2009, 8:53am

Thus spake “Farandir”:

Is this exactly what you typed? UNIX filesystems are case-sensitive,
and the shell script which starts VASSAL should be called “VASSAL.sh”
(note that VASSAL is upper-cased). If you typed “vassal.sh” and the
file is called “VASSAL.sh”, then it will not work.

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uckelman · April 9, 2009, 8:54am

Thus spake “Farandir”:

Also, you said above that you’re running Java 1.6.0_07. That’s a bit old.
Are there any more recent updates for your Linux distribution?

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Farandir · April 10, 2009, 8:53am

Ah, of course I typed VASSAL.sh. Then I got the error quoted above.

Via the package updater, I could find a “java 1.7.0-iced-tea update” and installed it, but this changed nothing, I still get the error. So has the “could not find main class”-error enything to do with the version of java I have on my machine?

uckelman · April 10, 2009, 9:03am

Thus spake “Farandir”:

I can’t tell yet. What output do you get in your terminal from the following
two commands?

which java

java -version

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Farandir · April 11, 2009, 6:09am

which java:
/usr/bin/java

java -version:
java version “1.7.0”
IcedTea Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b21)
IcedTea Client VM (build 1.7.0-b21, mixed mode)

uckelman · April 11, 2009, 1:10pm

Thus spake “Farandir”:

That looks fine.

Go to the directory you installed VASSAL (this directory should contain
VASSAL.sh, and two subdirectories, lib and doc), and type this into
your terminal:

java -classpath lib/Vengine.jar VASSAL.launch.ModuleManager

What happens?

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Farandir · April 14, 2009, 10:46am

This is what I get:

Looks like the same error. And thank you very much for your help so far! Although we’re not there yet…

uckelman · April 14, 2009, 10:52am

Thus spake “Farandir”:

This is what I get:

[user@localhost Vassal]$ java -classpath lib/Vengine.jar VASSAL.launch.Modu

leManager

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: VASSAL/launch/Mo

duleManager

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: VASSAL.launch.ModuleManager
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:221)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:209)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:324)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:269)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:337)
Error: Could not find the main class.
Error: A JNI error has occurred, please check your installation and try aga

in

Looks like the same error. And thank you very much for your help so far! Alth
ough we’re not there yet…

Show me what’s in the directory you were in when you typed that command.
(The command for that is ‘ls’.)

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Farandir · April 14, 2009, 11:44am

I’m not quite sure about what you mean. The contents of the “Vassal”-directory listed by “dir” are:

AboutScreen.png miglayout-3.6.3-swing.jar
ActionButton.htm ModuleInstaller.htm
ActionButton.png ModuleUpdater.htm
AreaOfEffect.htm ModuleUpdater.png
AreaOfEffect.png MovementTrail.htm
AreaOfEffectSample1.png MovementTrail.png
AreaOfEffectSample2.png MultiActionButton.htm
AtStartStack.png MultiActionButton.png
BasicPiece.htm NamedColor.png
BasicPiece.png NonRectangular.htm
batik-anim.jar NonRectangular.png
batik-awt-util.jar NonStacking.htm
batik-bridge.jar NonStacking.png
batik-codec.jar NotesWindow2.png
batik-css.jar NotesWindow.png
batik-dom.jar NOTICE
batik-extension.jar OverviewWindow.png
batik-ext.jar PanelWidget2.png
batik-gui-util.jar PanelWidget.png
batik-gvt.jar PieceRecenterer.png
batik-parser.jar PieceWindow.htm
batik-script.jar PieceWindow.png
batik-svg-dom.jar Pivot.htm
batik-svggen.jar Pivot.png
batik-swing.jar PlayerHand.htm
batik-transcoder.jar PlayerHand.png
batik-util.jar PlayerSides.png
batik-xml.jar PlaySound.htm
Board2.png PlaySound.png
Board.htm PredefinedSetup1.png
BoardPicker.png PredefinedSetup2.png
Board.png PrivateMap.png
BrowserLauncher2-1_3.jar PrivateWindow.htm
ChangePropertyButton.png Properties.htm
ChartMap.png PropertyMarker.htm
Chart.png PropertyMarker.png
ChartWindow.htm propertysheet-edit2.png
ChartWindow.png propertysheet-edit4.png
Clone.png propertysheet-edit5.png
configuration_window.png propertysheet-fieldtypes.png
connect.gif PropertySheet.htm
ConsoleWindow.png property_sheet_map.png
COPYING PropertySheet.png
COPYING.LIB PrototypeDefinition.png
COPYING.txt Prototypes.htm
CounterDetailViewer.png RandomTextButton.png
CounterGlobalKeyCommand.png README
createInstaller.png README.html
DeckGlobalKeyCommand.htm README.js.txt
DeckGlobalKeyCommand.png README.pdf-transcoder.txt
Deck.htm README.txt
Deck.png README.xalan-2.6.0.txt
Delete.png README.xerces_2_5_0.txt
DiceButton.png README.xml-apis-ext.txt
DoActionButton.htm README.xml-apis.txt
DoActionButton.png RectangularGrid.htm
DynamicProperty.htm RectangularGrid.png
DynamicProperty.png Replace.htm
Extension.htm Replace.png
FontStyle.png ReportChanges.htm
GameModule.htm ReportChanges.png
GameModule.png ReportFormat.png
GamePiece.htm RestrictCommands.htm
GamePieceImageDefinitions.htm RestrictCommands.png
GamePieceImageDefinitions.png RestrictedAccess.htm
GamePieceImage.htm RestrictedAccess.png
GamePieceLayerControl.png ReturnToDeck.htm
GamePieceLayers.htm ReturnToDeck.png
GamePieceLayers.png Rotate.htm
GamePieceLayouts.htm Rotate.png
GamePiece.png SavedGameUpdater.htm
GlobalHotKey.htm SavedGameUpdater.png
GlobalHotkey.png SelectionHighlighter.png
GlobalKeyCommand.htm SendToLocation.htm
GlobalKeyCommand.png SendToLocation.png
GlobalOptions.htm SetGlobalProperty.htm
GlobalOptions.png SetupStack.htm
GlobalProperties.htm ShapeItemInstance.png
GlobalProperty.png ShapeItem.png
GridNumbering2.png smack.jar
GridNumbering.htm smackx-debug.jar
GridNumbering.png smackx.jar
HelpFile.png SpecialDiceButton.htm
HelpMenu.htm SpecialDiceButton.png
HexGrid.htm SpecialDieFace.png
HexGrid.png SpecialDie.png
Hideable.htm Splash.png
Hideable.png Spreadsheet.htm
HidePieces.png Spreadsheet.png
HtmlChart.png StackingOptions.png
HtmlHelpFile.png StepForward.png
ImageCapture.png SubMenu.htm
imagedefn.png SubMenu.png
imageitem.png swing-layout-1.0.3.jar
imagelayoutbuttons.png swing-worker-1.2.jar
imagelayoutitems.png swingx-0.9.4.jar
imagelayout.png symbolinstance.png
imagelayouttext1.png symbolitem.png
imagelayouttextbox.png TakeTheTour.png
imagelayoutvisualizer.png textboxinstance.png
index.htm textinstance.png
InternetDiceButton.png TimingFramework-1.0.jar
Inventory.htm ToolbarMenu.htm
Inventory.png ToolbarMenu.png
InventoryWindow.png tour.log
IrregularGrid.htm tour.mod
IrregularGrid.png Translate.htm
java-getopt-1.0.13.jar TranslateModule.png
jna.jar Translate.png
Label.htm TranslateVassal.png
Label.png Translations.htm
LastMoveHighlighter.png TriggerAction2.png
Layer2.png TriggerAction.htm
Layer.htm TriggerAction.png
Layer.png TurnTrackerCounter.png
LibraryWindow.png TurnTrackerGlobalHotkey.png
LICENSE TurnTracker.htm
LICENSE.dom-documentation.txt TurnTrackerList.png
LICENSE.dom-software.txt TurnTracker.png
LICENSE.js.txt TurnTrackerTurnWindow.gif
LICENSE.pdf-transcoder.txt Tutorial.png
LICENSE.sax.txt UseGridLocation.png
LICENSE.txt UsePrototype.htm
LICENSE.xalan-2.6.0.txt UsePrototype.png
LICENSE.xerces_2_5_0.txt VASSAL.sh
LOS_Thread.png Vengine.jar
Map.htm versionHistory.html
Map.png wizard.jar
MapShading.png xalan-2.6.0.jar
Marker.htm xercesImpl.jar
Marker.png xml-apis-ext.jar
MarkMoved.htm xml-apis.jar
MarkMoved.png ZonedGrid.htm
Mask.htm ZoneHighlighter.png
Mask.png Zone.png
MessageFormat.htm Zoomer.png

The “Is” command does not seem to work. Do I have to use it with the original command line you gave me? As this was executed in the “Vassal”-directory, the contents should be the same as those listed above?

You mentioned that there should be two subdirectories “lib” and “doc”. As far as I can see, they are missing in my Vassal-directory. I’ll try and download vassal again, maybe there was something wrong with my original archive? It’d be nice if it is as easy as this…

uckelman · April 14, 2009, 11:54am

Thus spake “Farandir”:

It’s a lower-case L, not an upper-case I. The command is ‘ls’, not ‘Is’.

(I didn’t even know there was a ‘dir’ command.)

The files which should be in the lib and doc directories somehow all ended
up together in one directory. This is why you can’t get VASSAL to run—the
files aren’t where VASSAL expects them to be. This should not happen. What
exactly did you do to install VASSAL?

What you should have done is grabbed the Linux bundle:

sourceforge.net/project/downloa … a=77550957

And then unpacked it into the directory of your choice like so:

cd directory/where/you/want/VASSAL/to/be
tar xjvf path/to/VASSAL-3.1.3-linux.tar.bz2

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Farandir · April 14, 2009, 3:20pm

That did the trick! I had the linux-package, but I used the GUI the first time, and obviously that didn’t work as it was intended. Using the terminal was the way to go.

So thanks again for helping getting rid of the bug sitting 30 cm in front of the monitor…

lauffenp · September 7, 2014, 8:31pm

Well, I hate to drag an old thread up from the underworld, but I am not able to get VASSAL installed on linux running on a chroot in chrome. There is a lot I don’t know, but I have java installed into a usr/jva folder, and I am reasonable certain VASSAL is correctly installed.

Command: bash VASSAL.sh
Returns:line 11 java: command not found

cmnd: which java
rtrns:

cmnd: echo $path
rtrns:

… So obviously I have a core problem here. I am VERY new to linux and have tried following everything in this forum but I think there is something wrong at the root. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help in advance.

uckelman · September 7, 2014, 9:38pm

Thus spake lauffenp:

Well, I hate to drag an old thread up from the underworld, but I am not
able to get VASSAL installed on linux running on a chroot in chrome.
There is a lot I don’t know, but I have java installed into a usr/jva
folder, and I am reasonable certain VASSAL is correctly installed.

Command: bash VASSAL.sh
Returns:line 11 java: command not found

cmnd: which java
rtrns:

cmnd: echo $path
rtrns:

Environment variables are case-sensitive. You should be checking
$PATH, not $path.

–
J.

lauffenp · September 11, 2014, 4:09pm

echo $PAth returns nothing, as well as echo $Path.

I’m really not sure wth is going on.

uckelman · September 11, 2014, 5:26pm

Thus spake lauffenp:

echo $PAth returns nothing, as well as echo $Path.

You want $PATH, all caps.

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J.

uckelman · September 12, 2014, 8:54am

Show us the output of ‘echo $PATH’.
To what path is java installed? (I.e., where is the java binary itself?)

lauffenp · September 12, 2014, 2:27pm

echo $PATH:
rtrns:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

java is installed: /usr/java/jre1.7.0_67

uckelman · September 12, 2014, 2:49pm

Thus spake lauffenp:

echo $PATH:
rtrns:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

java is installed: /usr/java/jre1.7.0_67

This is why it’s not working. Your shell looks in the directories listed
in $PATH for programs which you try to execute without any relative or
absolute path components specified. So, when you try to run java (or,
when VASSAL.sh tries to run java), your shell looks in /usr/local/sbin,
/usr/local/bin, and so on.

If you have java installed in /usr/java/jre1.7.0_67, there are several
things you could do to get that on your path.

What I would do is make a symbolic link from /usr/bin/java to
/usr/java/jre1.7.0_67/java:

ln -s /usr/java/jre1.7.0_67/java /usr/bin/java

After doing that that, ‘which java’ should show you:

/usr/bin/java

Alternatively, you could append /usr/java/jre1.7.0_67 to $PATH.

NB: I suspect that the java binary is in /usr/java/jre1.7.0_67/bin,
not in /usr/java/jre1.7.0_67 as you reportred. You’ll want to check
that, and adjust the paths to match what you find. My instructions are
assuming /usr/java/jre1.7.0_67.

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J.