[SOLVED] Hi! I’m a web dev, and I got a slick looking skin off the website. Then I thought, I wanna make my own, because I’m also a hobby artist. So okay, I’m on linux, don’t have Java installed yet. I go and install it, put it in /usr/java, I install the .tar.gz package for the editor from the website (I’m on Ubuntu 22/Jammy). I try to use the software installer on the tarball, get an error. Okay, so I unpack it and try to open the .jar using the JRE, no dice, still get an error about it not being an executable or something.
[SOLUTION] For everyone on Linux trying to run the editor, here’s how I got it to run after many errors, trials and tribulations:
Java:
1. Download Java linux version.
2. Export the tarball for it
3. Move it into /usr/java (sudo chown $USER:$USER ./java in order to be able to paste stuff in there, then change it back to root)
Editor:
1. Download the tar.gz file
2. Unpack the tarball
3. CD into the extraction target folder
4. Use the command from the shell script named ‘VLCSkinEditor’ (this one: java -jar VLCSkinEditor.jar)
4.1 OR, you can type bash VLCSkinEditor and it will also launch (if you’re in the extraction’s target folder)
5. Success! To close the program you can ctrl+c from the terminal to stop the command.
6. Additionally, you should probably make a bash script you can double click to run the bash command at the path of your extraction. You can also right click > properties > allow opening file as executable and then you can open the program without having to also type bash
Statistics: Posted by TheRedLime — 23 May 2024 14:33