How do you start Aerowinx in Linux?

[turbodiddley]

I have started a new thread on this as I continue to have no success starting Aerowinx in Linux. Works fine on Windows.

My Linux distribution is Ubuntu 18.04. My Java is 1.8.0_201. 

When I click on the AerowinxInstaller.jar, it opens Java with the Java coffee icon on the taskbar. A new Aerowinx folder is created on the desktop. This folder contains 13 various system data folders, and the only one that has any data in it is the Audio folder, and only some of the controller names have something in them. Also there is a generic pdf icon for the Aerowinx Operating Manual, which contains no data.

I have copied all files from the DVD onto my desktop, renamed the Z folder Aerowinx, and then tried clicking on the AerowinxStart.jar icon. This does not make Java start, and has no result. I have checked the permissions on this jar file and changed it to an executable file, and this does not help.

I have attempted to run the AerowinxStart.jar file directly from the command line terminal.

When I type: Java AerowinxStart.jar 
it returns:   Could not find or load main class aerowinx.jar

When I type the full directory version: Java home/Kurt/Desktop/Aerowinx/AerowinxStart.jar
it returns:   Could not find or load main class aerowinx.jar

I have put in a call to a representative at Canonical, and they are trying to help. 

I have no preference of one Linux Distribution versus another, though I am only familiar with Mint and Ubuntu at this point. This computer is dedicated to Aerowinx. Can anybody provide instructions on a successful route to loading Linux, Java, and Aerowinx?

250hz Core 2 Duo processor, 120GB SSD, 4GB Ram

Thank you in advance. Fantastic software, I just cannot wait to dive in and use it!

[Hardy Heinlin]

Maybe it's different in your Linux version, but usually the command should be:

java -jar AerowinxStart.jar

Before you enter this, you need to change your command line to the Aerowinx folder.


Otherwise, you may try this:

java -jar /home/Kurt/Desktop/Aerowinx/AerowinxStart.jar


It's strange that the installation omits some files. Is there any background program running that might interrupt the process? And how much RAM is available?


Just curious, is there any special reason you prefer Linux over Windows?


Regards,

|-|ardy

[turbodiddley]

Thank you Hardy for the quick reply.

I have tried both commands as posted, and both of them return with "Unable to access jarfile".

This machine has 4 GB Ram. It is the same machine that had MS Windows, and I changed the mechanical hard drive to a SSD and loaded Linux on it, as I prefer the suite of software that comes with Linux and have been using Linux for years. That being said, if I have to pay to have Windows added back to the machine to make PSX go, that is fine. I am just trying to give it one more try before going that direction.

Thank you again for looking into it!

Kurt

[Hardy Heinlin]

Hi Kurt,

I understand the machine has 4 GB. But how much GB is currently available to user applications while Linux is running? There might be something in the background that is taking away some RAM. Is there any monitor program in your Linux that can indicate your current RAM distribution?


Re "Unable to access jarfile": Have you tried these tips?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11943948/what-causes-unable-to-access-jar-file-error/36002043


Cheers,

|-|ardy

[turbodiddley]

Hardy,

I have checked the memory resources, and as you said, only 1.8 GB are left of 4 GB.  I did not realize Ubuntu Linux would use that much. I will try installing a lighter Linux distribution package.

Thank you,

Kurt

[cagarini]

I've been following this thread with some interest in a positive outcome :-)

Along the last 8 years, after returning to filght simulation, by the hand of MS FLIGHT ( which had a miserable fate :-/ ) I have considered a few times migrating my home desktop to Linux.

The reason is twofold - Linux is what we use these days mostly at the place I work, after years using various flavors of UNIX and Vax VMS. But I never actually specialized in Linux, as I did with those UNIX versions I used extensively since the early eighties... Having Linux at the home PC would force me to really find / learn more about it.

OTOH it would considerably restrict the amount of "mess" that the lack of objectivity in my choices for "what flight simulator should I stick too?..." brings to my mind. I would be restricted to Aerowinx PSX ( so I thought - never tried running it it Linux though ), Silentwings ( the 2007 soaring simulator ), Flight Gear ( which once could be used as a visuals generator for Aerowinx PS1 ) and even War Thunder :-))) ( I tried it, was a LOT of fun, but ... ya know, even felt ashamed of using it... ).

So, should I find that PSX can actually run properly in some Linux flavor might actually push my decision stack...

[GodAtum]

I tried using Ubuntu but found a few problems.

I could not start PSX automatically on boot, unlike in Windows.
VNC into Ubuntu was very slow.
And I could not convert all my machines over s some addons need Windows.

[cagarini]

Just out of curiosity, will soon try it from Mint Linux...

Just installed in one ( old ) ASUS laptop, and will check if PSX can run :-)

[vatin]

I also used to attempt installing and running Aerowinx PSX in Linux without success. The first attempt the installer pop up an error saying it couldn't find some random file needed for installation and quitted mid way. The other time the installation successfully completed to the point where I could launch the sim, but it runs like slide show with single digit frame rate. I personally advocate Linux, unfortunately I just need things to work.

[SwissCharles]

Interesting thread!

...
Just curious, is there any special reason you prefer Linux over Windows?
...

Hmmm... a good reason for me to change to Linux could be when M$ will start asking for recurring licence fees (SaaS) for W10 once they have succesfully forced us away from Windows 7 which will be at the end of next January or so...

What distro's are you guys running? Are there already succesfully working installations?

[GodAtum]

Just curious, is there any special reason you prefer Linux over Windows?

Windows restarts without my approval mid-flight 

[Gary Oliver]

All,

I run 13 windows machines running the sim and having configured them correctly I have no issues at all.

Cheers
G

[GodAtum]

All,

I run 13 windows machines running the sim and having configured them correctly I have no issues at all.

Cheers
G

Windows 10? How do you stop the annoying notifications popping up?