Possible bug for Ubuntu users

[400guy]

I got the disk today and installed it with no difficulty on the system here under Windows 7.

Later on I attempted to do an install to the Ubuntu partition (on the same machine) and encountered a problem.



On this partition. the Aerowinx CD is mounted as below, and when the .jar file is run I see this message:

The file '/media/jj/AerowinxPS 10.0.0/Installer.jar' is not marked as executable.

The system here is a dual boot with both windows 7 and Ubuntu on it in separate partitions.

Intel® Core™ i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz × 8
GeForce GTX 680/PCIe/SSE2
64-bit  Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

This is NOT a problem for me, but it could be for folks with a Ubuntu only machine.



hoppie fixed a typo in the title

[Tércio Sampaio]

Hi,

It's not a bug, its the way how linux works, and for fix it depends much the version of distribution and the java version installed. If you already have the last version. Try this:
java -jar /media/jj/AerowinxPS 10.0.0/Installer.jar

or in the file folder:
java -jar Installer.jar

Best regards

Tércio

[400guy]

or in the file folder:
java -jar Installer.jar

That worked !

I'n never seen that error before, and as I was unable to change the permission, I thought that the fine ON THE DISK needed to have that bit set.  Apparently not (IF you know of the fix above.

Thanks
jj

[Tércio Sampaio]

Hi JJ,

Nice to know that it works!!!

Thanks

Regards

Tércio

[Richie]

Hi fyi

I created a text file 'psx.desktop'  on my desktop  to launch PSX within Ubuntu.
Make sure that it is executable via Properties -> Permissions -> Allow executing file as a program

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon=/home/richie/Pictures/psx.jpg
Name=psx
Exec=java -jar /home/richie/Aerowinx/AerowinxStart.jar
Path=/home/richie/Aerowinx
Categories=Utility;

PSX works perfect with Ubuntu  :lol:

regards,
Richard

[400guy]

Although the method shown above got the installer to work, the installed jar files still had the same message 'till I changed the permissions to allow execution.  The AerowinxStart.jar file no longer complain BUT...

I'm still not able to get it to run here (under Ubuntu). I suspect that I don't have the proper version of java installed.  (Although the installer was happy with what I have)

I'll continue to fool with it a bit more, but as things run fine under windows 7, it's not a big priority for me.

[400guy]

I've now tried opening the file with both

OpenJDK Java 7 Runtime
OpenJDK Java 6 Runtime

But there is no effect seen in either case.  Any thoughts as to what I need to do here?

[Ray_CYYZ]

Mount by default prevents execution of content.

Try explicitly granting execute via -o exec like this:

mount -o exec

[400guy]

Thanks Ray, but I'm not good enough with Linux to follow your direction I'm sorry to say.

The file is on my Ubuntu desktop in the Aerowinx folder, but I'm not sure how to use your suggestion.

(I appreciate your helping hand however !)

jj

[Tércio Sampaio]

Hi,

after install, you need to go to the aerowinx folder and run the command.

java -jar AerowinxStart.jar

or

java -jar /home/XXXXXX/Aerowinx/AerowinxStart.jar

where XXXXX is the name of your account

With best regards

Tércio

[400guy]

This command, and the previous suggestion that got the installer to work, got things running here.

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

Many thanks for the help.

Perhaps this (or similar) info should be passed along to others who might have the same problem that I had.  The Ubuntu installation was NOT the "piece of cake" that the Windows 7 install was!

[Tércio Sampaio]

Hi 400guy,

nice that now you can run it!

yes, linux is not as user friendly as MS Windows and also suffer that each distribution have his own tiny differences that put the things even worst. It's an awesome OS for specific tasks and not for general domestic use.

Best regards

Tércio

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Linux is very user friendly, it is just quite picky in selecting its friends   :mrgreen:

We fly with it on 777s... try THAT with Windows    :twisted:

http://www.avionica.com/index.php/whats-new/151-pr-777-satlink


Hoppie

[David Palmer]

Congratulations Hoppie on obtaining the STC for satLINK MAX.
I'm waiting for the special WorldFlight release containing the "Place Call FOR MORE BEER" select key.
I trust you are working on that now with proving flights scheduled in the 1st week of November.

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

You mean this version?

[Will]

             

[Tércio Sampaio]

Linux is very user friendly, it is just quite picky in selecting its friends   :mrgreen:

Thinking in that way, yes its true

We fly with it on 777s... try THAT with Windows    :twisted:

http://www.avionica.com/index.php/whats-new/151-pr-777-satlink

This is in agreement with what i told before "It's an awesome OS for specific tasks"  

Regards

Tércio