I am trying to configure my Appe Airport Basestation using the Java Configurator. It requires Java 1.2 but apparently can work with some an extra download (swing library for java < 1.2). I am a java newbie and have never had any success trying to execute java apps :(
Apparently the command to run the app is "java -jar AirportConfigurator.jar" but I can't get it to work. I'm pretty sure I haven't got java installed properly. I've tried installing jdk1.1. It installs a binary called java but it doesn't have the -jar command line switch. Maybe the extra swing library download has this ??? I've also tried installing kaffe which does support the -jar switch. $ kaffe AirportBaseStationConfig.jar java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: AirportBaseStationConfig/jar at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:38) at java.lang.Error.<init>(Error.java:21) at java.lang.LinkageError.<init>(LinkageError.java:21) at java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.<init>(NoClassDefFoundError.java:21) $ kaffe -classpath . -jar AirportBaseStationConfig.jar Couldn't find or load essential class `java/lang/Object' java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError java/lang/Object Aborted How do I successfully install a Java 1.2 Runtime Environment ? (using apt preferably). I can't find any 1.2 JRE's using "apt-cache search" and "apt-cache show". Please help. I appreciate any comments, suggestions and pointers. Brendan Simon.
