Thanks for your quick replies.
@Empire Phoenix said: As far as I know it tries to use a installed one if aviable and falls back to bundled else. Maybee there is something making it believe there is one installed already?Is a java in the path?
There is no working javac accessible via $PATH.
@normen said: The JDK is included, when and how do you get this message?
When attempting to run jmonkeyplatform after what appears to be a successful install.
> sudo ./jmonkeyplatform-linux-x64.sh --verbose > ~/jme3-install-log-2.txt
> …inconsequential wizard warning message…
> /usr/local/jmonkeyplatform/bin/jmonkeyplatform
> Cannot find java. Please use the --jdkhome switch.
Partial resolution:
The underlying problem seems to be that while the /usr/local/jmonkeyplatform/bin/jmonkeyplatform shell script has been installed with execute permissions for ordinary users, the bundled Oracle JDK has been installed with only read permissions for ordinary users. So when an ordinary user runs the jmonkeyplatform script, the JMonkey version of Netbeans will start up and then vomit the rather misleading error message “cannot find java” when it realises that it can’t use the java executables it has actually found.
Trying
> sudo /usr/local/jmonkeyplatform/bin/jmonkeyplatform
appears to run jmonkeyplatform just fine.
But of course I don’t really want to run any SDK with super user privileges, let alone one with a whiff of mischief…