I am unable to launch VStar under RedHat Fedora Linux v.32. I'm probably missing something simple here but I've never had a problem before under other Linux variants such as Debian and also OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
First, here is my version of Java that is installed:
[msoukup@krisztina vstar]$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_242"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_242-b08)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.242-b08, mixed mode
Here is what I get when I try to launch VStar:
[msoukup@krisztina vstar]$ sh VStar.sh
Exception: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError thrown from the UncaughtExceptionHandler in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0"
No VStar window comes up. Again, I've never before had such a problem running VStar, so I'm a bit puzzled. Can anyone point the way to a solution?
Mike Soukup
Hi Mike
Not sure what's causing the error, but you could try an alternative like Amazon Corretto Java:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-8-ug/generic-linux-install.html
David
Hi David --
I tried your suggestion. After uninstalling Oracle Java OpenJDK 1.8 I then installed Amazon Corretto Java for Fedora Linux.
This works! VStar fires right up just fine!
Many thanks,
Mike
Good to hear Mike. Glad it's working.
I think what you had installed was not Oracle but a free OpenJDK installation. Oracle ought to work too, but I'm trying Corretto these days (on my Mac).
David