Hello List, I thought I'd have a play with a mind mapping program, so I tried to install freemind on this ~amd64 box. This is an excerpt from the log:
-------- >>> Compiling source in /tmp/portage/app- misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc6/work/freemind ... * Using following ANT_TASKS: ant-nodeps ant-trax jibx xsd2jibx Buildfile: build.xml init: [echo] FreeMind Version = 0.9.0_RC_6, build 11. xmlbind.checkStatusOfGeneration: gen: [mkdir] Created dir: /tmp/portage/app- misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc6/work/freemind/binding [mkdir] Created dir: /tmp/portage/app- misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc6/work/freemind/binding/src [mkdir] Created dir: /tmp/portage/app- misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc6/work/freemind/binding/run [mkdir] Created dir: /tmp/portage/app- misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc6/work/freemind/binding/classes [javac] Compiling 1 source file to /tmp/portage/app- misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc6/work/freemind/binding/run [delete] Deleting directory /tmp/portage/app- misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc6/work/freemind/binding/run [javac] Compiling 100 source files to /tmp/portage/app- misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc6/work/freemind/binding/classes [echo] Running binding compiler... [bind] Failed setting classpath from Ant task [jar] Building jar: /tmp/portage/app- misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc6/work/freemind/lib/bindings.jar [delete] Deleting directory /tmp/portage/app- misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc6/work/freemind/binding build: [...etc...] -------- Successful completion is announced, but when I run the program from a terminal I get this: -------- $ freemind Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/gjl-2.6", line 266, in <module> vm = get_vm(pkg) File "/usr/bin/gjl-2.6", line 159, in get_vm target, needs_jdk = get_needed_target2(pkg) File "/usr/bin/gjl-2.6", line 51, in get_needed_target2 target = pkg.target() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/java_config_2/Virtual.py", line 112, in target return self.get_provider().query("TARGET") AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'query' Couldn't get needed information -------- Can someone who knows more Java than I do see what's missing? This may help: $ java-config -L The following VMs are available for generation-2: 1) IcedTea6-bin 1.7 [icedtea6-bin] *) Sun JDK 1.5.0.22 [sun-jdk-1.5] -- Rgds Peter.