[udig-devel] Getting started with uDig

[Jody Garnett]

Gordon Keith wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 May 2007 09:22, Jody Garnett wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
> Looks good, how do you get to it from the main uDig page (I didn't amange to 
> find it)?
>   
I found it from the Walkthough 1 page ... really it is part of the 
Online Help - which you only see after you have uDig installed with 
Browser support (go figure).

If their is enough interest/content we should break out a seperate Linux FAQ
>> It includes some information about the problems opening a browser (you
>> need a copy of Mozilla installed).
>>     
> Is there any reason why it has to be Mozilla?
>   
I am not on Linux :-) My impression is that *yes* there is a reason (and 
some of the latest Linux distributions confused the matter with their 
own private fork of Firefox).
- http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#browserlinux

This situation should change when we have a moment to upgrade to a 
Eclipse 3.3 core.
>> 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 linux download does include a JRE which does include the JAI jar files.
> Is there any way to run udig using the JRE installed on the system?
>   
Yes it is a command line option - let me check (and add it to that 
page). done.

udig -vm vmPath
>> I think our username/password for the database changed.
>>     
> It might be worth updating the walkthrough PDF.
>   
Cheers,
Jody