Author: toad
Date: 2008-08-02 00:57:20 +0000 (Sat, 02 Aug 2008)
New Revision: 21574

Modified:
   trunk/apps/new_installer/res/unix/bin/setup.sh
Log:
More helpful error message

Modified: trunk/apps/new_installer/res/unix/bin/setup.sh
===================================================================
--- trunk/apps/new_installer/res/unix/bin/setup.sh      2008-08-02 00:44:39 UTC 
(rev 21573)
+++ trunk/apps/new_installer/res/unix/bin/setup.sh      2008-08-02 00:57:20 UTC 
(rev 21574)
@@ -57,7 +57,12 @@
 then
        echo "#################################################################"
        echo "It seems that you are using a buggy JVM..."
-       echo "The installer will refuse to run until you switch to a decent one"
+       echo "Most versions of OpenJDK, and most other fully open source Java 
implementations have bugs"
+       echo "causing the installer to fail, and/or Freenet to break. Please 
install Sun Java 1.5 or 1.6"
+       echo "to make the installer work. On ubuntu:"
+       echo
+       echo "apt-get install sun-java6-jre"
+       echo "update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun"
        echo "#################################################################"
        echo "You are currently using:"
        java -version


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