[Live-demo] Re: Why is GeoNetwork throwing errors on LiveDVD?

[Cameron Shorter]

Judit Mays wrote:
> Alex Mandel schrieb:
>   
>> Brian Hamlin wrote:
>>     
>>> with a tiny bit of investigation, it looks like someone with java
>>> knowledge needs to set
>>> $JAVA_OPTS  to include  --XXaltjvm=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.15
>>> something
>>> in the launch script...
>>>
>>> this DVD is likely to get a lot of exposure..
>>> I would argue its worth the time of someone to make this small change
>>>
>>> best regards
>>>   -Brian
>>>
>>> ==
>>> Brian Hamlin
>>> planetwork.net
>>> OSGeo California Chapter
>>> (415) 717-4462 cell
>>>       
>> Just needed to give it the path to the java it wants instead of calling
>> straight java which picks the system default. If this causes problems
>> for lots of packages we can consider running update-alternatives to set
>> sun java as the default.
>>
>> Fixed in revision, 3421
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>     
>
> Hi,
>
> I remember we already had a discussion about Java version before the 2.0
> release. deegree also needs sun-java, and there were other projects as
> well. So I favour to dump openJDK and get Sun-Java in versions 1.5 and
> 1.6 onto the DVD by default.
>
> Kind regards,
> Judit
>
>   
Yes Judit,
Lets re-open this discussion after we release the final 3.0 at the end 
of this week.
And we can pick a common java version for all. (I'd also like to look 
into common datasets, and other common installs too, like tomcat)

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