Minion on Ubuntu?

[Chibi]

Has anyone gotten it to install properly? I never got the initial release to install with or without sudo, and wound up with the same results trying again today. If you have gotten it to work in Ubuntu, care to post how? Or if you haven't, post that too!

[Zyonin]

If you have not already, you need to upgrade your Java installation. The one that ships with Ubuntu (and other Debian based distros) is a bit old and may not be fully compatible with Jave Web Start based programs.

The Latest Java is Version 6 Update 16

[Shirik]

Minion should be compatible with any Sun JRE running version 5 or later. If you are having any problems I would love to hear the details about them.

[Chibi]

Using Sun Java 6 update 16, without sudo:
from the command line using "javaws http://minion.mmoui.com/minion.jnlp" or from "open with java webstart" from the browser

java.lang.IllegalStateException: DynamicProxyManager: Invalid Proxy Type
	at com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.DynamicProxyManager.reset(DynamicProxyManager.java:370)
	at com.sun.deploy.net.proxy.DeployProxySelector.reset(DeployProxySelector.java:59)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main.initializeExecutionEnvironment(Main.java:1120)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:187)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:111)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

and then a nice generic "Unable to launch application" window with details:

CouldNotLoadArgumentException[ Could not load file/URL specified: http://minion.mmoui.com/minion.jnlp]
	at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Main.java:325)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Main.java:250)
	at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Main.java:111)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619

from the command line with sudo:
With sudo, everything seems to install fine (x86 build, the WoWI and zip-extraction modules clicked for install, version 2.3.0 in the window) though the folder is owned by root and so the user only has read permissions, a quick change of owner fixes that though.

when running "java -jar minion.jar" from the ~/Minion directory the command line outputs:

Oct 1, 2009 12:15:44 PM org.jdesktop.application.Application$1 run
SEVERE: Application class com.mmoui.manager.Main failed to launch
java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Permission denied
	at com.mmoui.manager.Main.startup(Main.java:201)
	at org.jdesktop.application.Application$1.run(Application.java:171)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Permission denied
	at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
	at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:883)
	at com.mmoui.manager.Log.<init>(Log.java:106)
	at com.mmoui.manager.Main.startup(Main.java:134)
	... 9 more
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.Error: Application class com.mmoui.manager.Main failed to launch
	at org.jdesktop.application.Application$1.run(Application.java:177)
	at java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch(InvocationEvent.java:209)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:597)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.io.IOException: Permission denied
	at com.mmoui.manager.Main.startup(Main.java:201)
	at org.jdesktop.application.Application$1.run(Application.java:171)
	... 8 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Permission denied
	at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
	at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:883)
	at com.mmoui.manager.Log.<init>(Log.java:106)
	at com.mmoui.manager.Main.startup(Main.java:134)
	... 9 more

Running the above with sudo will launch minion, but tell you that you have no modules installed. Update from 2.3.1 to 2.3.1 seems to work fine, but again, no modules. So ultimately with sudo, I can get a pretty but empty Minion interface, and then that's about it.