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ChangeLog.txt data doc plugin-dev VStar.sh dist extlib
ls dist
vstar.jar
./VStar.sh starts OK in that context.
The Mac OS X vstar-mac.dmg does not contain VStar.sh even though it can be used if git cloning and building in a Mac terminal. I removed the alternate example usage of ./VStar.sh from the wiki page.
I'm wondering whether you were looking in vstar-mac.dmg inadvertently. Just trying to understand what you are seeing and why.
Other Linux users care to say what they find here?
I don't know how my dist directory got lost but "unzip" creates it. I was previously using the archive manager to extract the vstar tree. Another trial of that approach yielded a dist directory, so I am baffled as to what happened (I didn't download vstar-mac.dmg).
Thanks Tom. I've added an issue for this: https://github.com/AAVSO/VStar/issues/302
I've also just added more detail re: Mac OS X and Linux here: https://github.com/AAVSO/VStar/blob/master/ReadMe.md
Hi Tom
I've added sections for Mac OS X, Linux and command-line options to https://github.com/AAVSO/VStar/wiki/Installation-Recipes
Feedback welcome.
David
When I start up VStar I get:
Exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0"
Looking at VStar.sh, I see it has:
java -splash:"$APP_DIR/extlib/vstaricon.png" \
-Xms800m -Xmx${MAX_MEM} -jar "$APP_DIR/dist/vstar.jar" $*
The vstar-bash download does not include a "dist" directory
Hi Tom
With the last release of VStar (https://github.com/AAVSO/VStar/releases/tag/2.22.0), here's what I see with vstar-bash.zip:
mkdir tmp
cd tmp
unzip ../vstar-bash.zip
cd vstar/
ls
ChangeLog.txt data doc plugin-dev VStar.sh dist extlib
ls dist
vstar.jar
./VStar.sh starts OK in that context.
The Mac OS X vstar-mac.dmg does not contain VStar.sh even though it can be used if git cloning and building in a Mac terminal. I removed the alternate example usage of ./VStar.sh from the wiki page.
I'm wondering whether you were looking in vstar-mac.dmg inadvertently. Just trying to understand what you are seeing and why.
Other Linux users care to say what they find here?
David
I don't know how my dist directory got lost but "unzip" creates it. I was previously using the archive manager to extract the vstar tree. Another trial of that approach yielded a dist directory, so I am baffled as to what happened (I didn't download vstar-mac.dmg).
Anyway, I can now run VStar. Thankyou!
Hi Tom
That's great. Let us know if you have any questions.
The next release is currently in development as well.
David
Tried firing up VStar today and ran into a different problem:
Can't load library: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/lib/libawt_xawt.so
Looking in the appropriate directory, I see libawt_headless.so and libawt.so, but no libawt_xawt.so
Hi Tom
Hmm. Odd that it was working before. A new version of Java installed? Still VStar 2.22.0?
What Linux distribution is this, e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, or something like WSL on Windows?
A delete and re-install of Java would be one approach (e.g.
sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk)Happy to help further.
David
Ubuntu Linux, VStar 2.22.0. I will note that the Java was installed from the Oracle download page.
I reinstalled Java as above and now VStar runs, but I do get the following warning at startup:
"libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile"