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On my Ubuntu 18 desktop I use Firefox. I just go to http://aavso.org/vstar and click the download vstar blue button. It loads vstar with webstart and starts executing it.
Is a file called vstar.jnlp downloaded to your Downloads folder?
If so, you can try double-clicking that.
If that doesn't work it may be because the javaws application isn't included in your default Java installation, e.g. see https://blog.hostonnet.com/jnlp
As Tom says, as an alternative, you can download the application archive and run it directly (so long as you have a Java installation):
I belive I had the same problem with VStar not loading/starting with the browser. My workaround was to download VStar from SourceForge and start it via the shell command I noted above.
I have VStar on my Ubuntu 18.4 laptop, and it works OK for me. I downloaded it a while back, so don't remember the process in detail, but I recall it being easy enough. I clicked the blue download button, and somehow a short cut appeared eventually on my desktop, and now I just click on that. VStar does run on the latest version of Java, so the only advice I can think of is to check to be sure you have a way to run Java prorams, and make sure it is up to date. I hope you can get it to work, VStar is nifty!
I start VStar by:
> /usr/share/vstar/VStar.sh
i tried it and it says no such file or directory.
Hi,
On my Ubuntu 18 desktop I use Firefox. I just go to http://aavso.org/vstar and click the download vstar blue button. It loads vstar with webstart and starts executing it.
Cliff
i am using firefox and when i click the vstar blue button, nothing happens.
Is a file called vstar.jnlp downloaded to your Downloads folder?
If so, you can try double-clicking that.
If that doesn't work it may be because the javaws application isn't included in your default Java installation, e.g. see https://blog.hostonnet.com/jnlp
As Tom says, as an alternative, you can download the application archive and run it directly (so long as you have a Java installation):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vstar/files/
David
thanks sir david. the link you gave for the javaws worked and i finally opened Vstar.
I belive I had the same problem with VStar not loading/starting with the browser. My workaround was to download VStar from SourceForge and start it via the shell command I noted above.
Tom
I have VStar on my Ubuntu 18.4 laptop, and it works OK for me. I downloaded it a while back, so don't remember the process in detail, but I recall it being easy enough. I clicked the blue download button, and somehow a short cut appeared eventually on my desktop, and now I just click on that. VStar does run on the latest version of Java, so the only advice I can think of is to check to be sure you have a way to run Java prorams, and make sure it is up to date. I hope you can get it to work, VStar is nifty!