darren kirby schreef: > quoth the Trenton Adams: >> on the "java" command line put "-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib" >> >> I don't know if gentoo has a config for this or not, I didn't know >> ADDLDPATH existed. Who knows, perhaps editing the JRE version of >> that file would help? > > I am really sorry, but I don't know what you mean by 'java command > line'. The app itself, is in /usr/bin like everything else, it just > gives me that error when I start it from an xterm, ie: $ iriverter > <insert error message>
Well, I don't know much about java either, but 4 out of 5 java programs I use are not started by "<program_name>", but by "java (-jar) <program_name>". This would be the "java" command-line, I imagine. Basically, the idea is that you have to invoke java so that java runs the program. Because the first argument in the command is "java", you are then able to use various command-line switches for Java (such as the aforementioned "-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib") before telling Java what program you want it to run (in this case "iriverter"). java -help Usage: java [-options] class [args...] (to execute a class) or java [-options] -jar jarfile [args...] (to execute a jar file) where options include: -client to select the "client" VM -server to select the "server" VM -hotspot is a synonym for the "client" VM [deprecated] The default VM is client. -cp <class search path of directories and zip/jar files> -classpath <class search path of directories and zip/jar files> A : separated list of directories, JAR archives, and ZIP archives to search for class files. -D<name>=<value> set a system property -verbose[:class|gc|jni] enable verbose output -version print product version and exit -version:<value> require the specified version to run -showversion print product version and continue -jre-restrict-search | -jre-no-restrict-search include/exclude user private JREs in the version search -? -help print this help message -X print help on non-standard options -ea[:<packagename>...|:<classname>] -enableassertions[:<packagename>...|:<classname>] enable assertions -da[:<packagename>...|:<classname>] -disableassertions[:<packagename>...|:<classname>] disable assertions -esa | -enablesystemassertions enable system assertions -dsa | -disablesystemassertions disable system assertions So I think what Trenton probably meant was that you should try starting the program with java -Djava.library.path=/usr/lib iriverter (assuming that iriverter is not a *.jar file in which case you'd need -jar before iriverter). You know, there's a high likelihood that the iriverter file in /usr/bin is a script that is readable in a text editor. You might want to see if you can have a look at it and see just what it's doing. A readme that tells you how to run the program (man iriverter? iriverter --help?) might be of some use, too. Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list