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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: Martin Iturbide on March 12, 2013, 03:44:00 am
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I was testing ProjectLibre and seems to work fine.
ProjectLibre 1.5.4
http://www.projectlibre.org/
Open source replacement of Microsoft Project, based in OpenProj.
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Nice to know that this exists and also I like your project plan Martin :-) .
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I read on slashdot the news of a Java developer that created an open source working Office Suite in 30 days.
http://www.joeffice.com/
So, I got to try it out on OS/2-eCS. I grabbed the MacOS version and unzipped it.
I run the installer with "java -jar bundle.jar".
The installer runs but it does not allow me to install because it gives me a "Joeffice s set up to be installed
to X:\programs\joeffice which does not belong to any of the file system roots."
Any ideas?
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Hi Martin
I thought I'd have a look at this and had a look for a package without an installer.
I did not find 1 so sent an email asking about a version without an installer. I have a reply:-
Hi Pete,
There is a zip on joeffice.net (http://www.joeffice.net/joeffice.zip) but
Joeffice requires java 7.
Regards,
Anthony
So, java7 is required - which probably explains why it is not installing for you.
Regards
Pete
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Thanks Pete.
I didn't notice that Java 7 was required for this.
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Maybe the non installer version requires Java 7 but I installed the windows installer version on a friends notebook that has Java 6 something and it works. The big problem appears to be that it needs NetBeans - at least it has a lot of NetBeans in the various sub dirs on windows XP.
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I have no idea which one to run with all the .jar files that it has :)
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If you unzip the zip version you will find in the bin dir 3 files, the first is a shell script for linux and apple which even checks what version of the apple OS it is using, the other are windows startup, 32 and 54 bit versions, that do the same thing as the shell script.
From that it would appear that this NOT a universal Java application but one tailored for the three OSs. You could question the author about this and ask if there is any way it will work on anything other than the 'big' three.
If you want to try, look in the \joeffice\joeffice\core\local directory, there is a core_joeffice.jar file that might be the one that starts everything but that starts off requiring NetBeans, there also doesn't appear to be anything in it that calls anything else. In the \joeffice\joeffice\modules directory there is org-joeffice-desktop.jar that looks a little more hopeful.
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I have a page about Java, see http://joopn.home.xs4all.nl/os2ecs/ecs6e.htm. You can read how to install (of course my way ;-) ) together with an OS/2 icon or if needed other additional files.
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I looked at that Joop but there is a problem - you do not show a way of running the particular Java application that Martin is looking at.
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Oh yes, I did, you didn't read the "disapproved" section. There you can read why I disapproved the program. I don't give instructions how to set up a program by knowing that it will knock down your system sometimes in a very terrible way.
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I have read the 'disapproved' section where you list: Frinika, Subsonic, Sonogram, Laoe, HDTVTestPattern, MagicLantern, Jpo, Fir4j, JavaPoint, MindRaider, ProjectLibre 1.5.2, Makagiga, Java Outline and, Smartgit as java applications that do not work for various reasons. Joeffice is not on that list.
I know that Pete was told that it requires java 7 but I have both the windows installer version and the zip version working on win XP in a VM using java 6.
When I get some spare time I will try and work out what the linux shell script does to start the program to see if it will or will not work on OS/2.
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Joeffice is not on that list.
Sorry, thought you referred to that other program. I haven't test Joeffice yet, seems it needs some parts from netbeans, but I'm not sure. At the time that I was testing this program was not ready for public.
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There is a zip on joeffice.net (http://www.joeffice.net/joeffice.zip)
??? No! Or better said, not official.
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So, java7 is required - which probably explains why it is not installing for you.
No, its not that simple. It seems that some parts are hard coded in order to make it as easy as possible in the three main streams. The good news is that all parts can be override with proper switches. The bad news is that there is not a file with even near a setup string. So there is some puzzling to do.
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Tried to install Joeffice. Linux as above, no way. Mac as above, but I don't get that far, the installer doesn't recognize the space on my harddrive. It complains of not enough space for the 69Mb, while there is room for 4G. Can't overcome this.
Joop