JNLP file problem
 

One of my sites is a site about a game called slime volleyball. A guy wrote a slime server and client thing so people could login and play each other over the internet. Unfortunately, the server is in jnlp (Java Web Start) file format. I can run it fine from my windows computer, but I can't get it to work on my linux server. Is it possible to run it on linux?

I'm pretty sure I do, but is there a way to check if I have java installed?

The script is at networkslime.com. Theres also a .bat file thats in the zip file under downloads on that page.

Thanks

Unfortunately, Java is owned by Sun Microsystems, and they do not allow it to be redistributed without special permission. So the chances are that your Linux distribution does not have Java installed. Also, Sun have made it difficult to download directly, so I can't just give you a link straight to the package. Heres what you need to do.

Goto http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

Part way down the page, you will see the heading ' J2SE v 1.4.2_11 JRE includes the JVM technology' with a link 'Download J2SE JRE' underneath it. Click on that link.

On the next page, tick the 'Accept' radio button for the license agreement, and then download the ' self-extracting file' version from the 'Linux Platform - Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition 1.4.2_11' section of the page.

Once you have that on your linux system, login via ssh, or start a shell prompt if you are using a desktop version of linux. Then follow the instructions here http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/install-linux.html You want the self extracting versions install instructions.

Once you manage to download everything, the install is fairly straight forward.

HTH,

Coop