Re: ADTPro on Ubuntu 8.10. Something strange is happening here. Unable to open.

[thepenciler09@gmail.com]

On Mar 29, 2:14 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Mar 29, 1:03 pm, thepencile...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Any Linux using Apple II enthusiasts out there that can help, please?
>
> The ADTPro shell script makes the assumption that it's placed at the
> top of a little tree of subdirectories.  So, it expects that ./disks
> and ./lib live right below it.  If you read through the script, you
> can see the script tries to find its own current location, and then
> find the actual code (./lib/ADTPro-x.x.x.jar) relative to its current
> location.  If it's not running, it probably can't find the .jar
> file.
>
> Note it will drop a .properties file in the "current working
> directory," which is set to the ./disks folder for convenience in
> picking up disk images.
>
> If you keep the whole package together (i.e. if you move the whole
> unpacked thing to ~/Applications/Java Apps/ADTPro, for example) it
> should run from there.  Or, if you just had unpacked it right in ~/
> Applications/Java Apps, it should have worked "out of the box."  Well,
> I've tested it on OSX and SuSE Linux, but not under Ubuntu - I don't
> know if the shell environment will behave exactly the same way.  But
> it sounds like running where you unpacked it is working correctly...
> so maybe you just need to unpack it right where you want it to go.
> Feel free to use the ADTPro help forum directly, too:http://apps.sourceforge.net/phpbb/adtpro/

Well, I've tried deleting the ADTPro.properties file and still no
love. It launches only where I first launched it (the downloads
folder). :( And I've unpacked it into the place I want it and it still
won't launch there. I'll ask the people in those forums and see if
they have an answer.