[udig-devel] Getting started with uDig

[Jody Garnett]

You are correct the walkthough instructions are focused on Windows.

We have been working on a page here about running uDig:
- http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/EN/Running+uDig

It includes some information about the problems opening a browser (you 
need a copy of Mozilla installed).

If you are just running udig from a zip file you will need to set up 
your copy of Java with JAI. I am not sure if you linux download included 
a copy of Java or not? We better wait for someone else to answer this 
email before asking you to mess around with JAI.

The only instructions I found on the web site were for developers and 
looked a little out of date:
- http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Linux+System+Check

I think our username/password for the database changed.

Cheers,
Jody
> I'm trying to get started using uDig and am having a number of problems.
>
> I've downloaded udig-1.1-RC10a.linux.gtk.x86.zip and unzipped it.
>
> I run udig.
>
> If I try to click on the tutorial or help I get the message:
> Unable to open web browser on {0}
>
> I tried following the walkthrough in uDigWalkthrough-1.1.pdf, but dragging the 
> DMS solutions WMS link from the web page onto the Layers View did nothing.
>
> I tried to follow the section Adding a layer from projects view and selected a 
> PostGIS data source host:www.refraction.net, port:5432, username:postgres
> it then gave a message Connection to Database, but that never seemed to 
> finish.
>
> If I try to create a new Layer from a GeoTIFF using, File, New, New Layer, 
> Files, Next,  and open a GeoTIFF I get:
> File can not be read.  Could be a JAI configuration problem or a corrupted 
> file.  Error recieved was: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: ImageRead: No 
> OperationDescriptor is registered in the current operation registry under 
> this name.
>
> I didn't manage to find any installation instructions in the package or on the 
> website.
>
> Any pointers as to how I resolve these issues?
>
> Regards
> Gordon
>
>