[CoLoCo] Having troubles with Alice....

[David Overcash]

I'm pretty certain this is related to the general graphics issues that
Ubuntu has when trying to do anything too pretty through java...  just like
in Second Life.  ; )

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Richard Guenther <richskyline at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm trying to get Alice (a java app that teaches programming concepts
> > written at Carnegie Melon University) to run correctly on Ubuntu.  My
> > eventual goal would be to have an Ubuntu lab set up in my classroom this
> > next year.  One of the last hurdles in convincing them that Ubuntu is all
> I
> > need is that Alice works correctly on Win XP, but not on Ubuntu--not
> quite.
> > First of all, here's where you can get Alice (You don't INSTALL it, you
> just
> > run it from it's folder--but it is large).
> >
> > http://www.alice.org/
> >
> > Here's the problem: on Ubuntu Alice looks wrong graphically.
>
> Ubuntu must have something that standard real-world debian systems
> don't. On my system (debian sid current as of a few days ago) the
> Alice run script is looking for something called PyJava. No hint of
> any such requirements on the Alice site. The only comment I could
> ggogle about this is the following:
>
> "The PyJava site has not been updated since 1997
> and the JPI site, although it does not mention any explicit dates,
> makes no mention of later operating system releases (Solaris 7, Windows
> 98, Windows 2000)."
>
> So, I can't help you.
>
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