I have jedit 5.0 installed under OpenSuse 12.3. The jedit installer on the jedit website is a jar file. When I try to install jedit 5.1 from the jar file with:
java -jar jedit5.1.0install.jar
I eventually get:
The installer could not create the destination directory. Maybe you do not have write permission ?
but since the destination directory is beneath my home directory this can hardly be the case. Anybody have any idea what is wrong with the OS java implementation ? Looking at Yast it says it is java-1_7_0-openjedk version 1.7.0.6-8.18.1-x86_64.
I had no problems installing jedit5.1.0install.jar so this problem seems very odd.
The way the installer works may have changed. Or, IMO more likely you may have mis-remembered how you installed in the first place.
In fact, if you install a generic package from a non-openSUSE site, I’d be surprised that by default a destination directory is defined other than in the same directory or in a standard location relative to root (instead of the logged in User). This is because different distros can mount the User files differently which would create installer headaches using that path.
So,
Read the INSTALL file or directions that normally come with any package or the documentation specific to that package.
Try running the file with -h or --help to see if there are installation options.
I highly doubt that the package install would likely install where you expected by default but maybe with a switch will do as you wish.
The installer was the same for jedit5.0.0install.jar. The line I executed there was:
java -jar jedit5.0.0install.jar
and it installed properly. The line for version 5.1 is:
java -jar jedit5.1.0install.jar
Even though the installation starts from a terminal window, once it starts it comes up with a GUI interface which presents the default install directories for the jedit The installation gives the paths it will install the files. These paths are for the jedit installation files itself, for the startup jedit script, and for the jedit man pages. The defaults for these paths are all subdirectories of the my home directory. That’s just how the installation works.
The installer consists of a single jar file. There is nothing else to read prior to the install and the instructions to install it are on the jedit site and are followed by me.
The installation also works properly for some other Linux distros ( CentOS 5 and 6, Mageia 3 ) but also fails in the same way as it does in OS 12.3 when I try to install the 5.1 version in Fedora 18.
eldiener wrote:
>
> I have jedit 5.0 installed under OpenSuse 12.3. The jedit installer on
> the jedit website is a jar file. When I try to install jedit 5.1 from
> the jar file with:
>
> java -jar jedit5.1.0install.jar
>
> I eventually get:
>
> The installer could not create the destination directory. Maybe you do
> not have write permission ?
>
> but since the destination directory is beneath my home directory this
> can hardly be the case. Anybody have any idea what is wrong with the OS
> java implementation ? Looking at Yast it says it is java-1_7_0-openjedk
> version 1.7.0.6-8.18.1-x86_64.
>
> I had no problems installing jedit5.1.0install.jar so this problem seems
> very odd.
>
>
I get same error on my machine.Solved it by unchecking “API” checkbox. I
think you should uncheck the checkbox “API documentation” in “Choose
components to install” screen. The docs probably go into “system”
folders(folders other than /home) in Linux.