Re: javaws

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On 2015-04-16, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The problem raised when I tried to "Launch Jalview Desktop" in the
> following website:
>
> http://www.jalview.org/Help
>
> at the top, right corner, there is "Launch Jalview Desktop".
>
> It worked very well in the past.  But today it is just not work as
> expected.
>
> I tried the /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/javaws, it
> showed me that Requesting JRE 1.7+.
>
>
> I installed openjdk-8-jre from sid, but it didn't contain the javaws.

The javaws executable is provided by the icedtea-netx package.

>
>
> Any suggestions, thanks.
>

Try running javaws directly on the linked resource at the command line,
i.e.,

	javaws http://www.jalview.org/webstart/jalview.jnlp

Do you see any error messages?

-- 

Liam