[Jalview-discuss] Jalview installation SOS!

[Jim Procter]

Hello Zhu.

On 28/01/2010 03:28, Andrew Perry wrote:
> 2010/1/28 朱浩 <zhuhao at smu.edu.cn <mailto:zhuhao at smu.edu.cn>>
>
>     Graphical installers are not supported by the VM. The console mode
>     will be used instead...
>
>     Invocation of this Java Application has caused an
>     InvocationTargetException. This application will now exit. (LAX)
>
>     Stack Trace:
>     java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError:
>     /tmp/install.dir.13040/Linux/resource/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so: libXext.so.6:
>     cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Could you clarify which version of Linux you are using (Ubuntu 9.10 ? 
> Fedora x.x ?). Are you running under the graphical X11 (Xorg) interface ?
Just to follow on from Andrew's email, it looks like you don't have X11 
on your machine - and unfortunately, X11 is essential for the Jalview 
application - even if you only want to run it from the command line. 
This post explains why:
http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/pipermail/jalview-discuss/2009-November/000260.html

Good luck!
Jim.

ps. thanks for the great advice, Andrew !

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