Hi,
After installation of the Ubuntu 9.10 I download fresh version of the KNIME 2.1.0 for x86_64. At first, I see warn: “The operating systems web browser could not be found! Using fall back (text-only) browser” in the help window.
And I cann’t load any extensions - I checked them, push “Install” button and have nothing. Without any warnings.
Can I solve this problems any way?
Thank you!
Oh, very interesting… When I push “Install” by the left mouse button, it don’t work, it only select. But when I press Enter key, I push button.
for the “push button and nothing happens”-problem: this is a bug in eclipse, but the workaround with hitting enter or the shortcut should work fine.
For the problem with the help browser, I had the same issues (in the same configuration), installing xulrunner-1.9.1 (the is the package name) resolved the problem for me:
I’m not sure, what uwe actually did, but my latest information is that it does not work with any xulrunner > 1.9.0.x. Therefore you need to install an older xulrunner < 1.9.1. This is a problem with Eclipse 3.4, they seem to have the same problem over and over again with any new release of xulrunner and no patches for older Eclipse versions are provided
I use KNIME 2.1.1 and Ubuntu 9.10. To get it working I did the following:
Ran the command “sudo apt-get install xulrunner”. This installs xulrunner version 1.8.1. It will happily coexist with xulrunner-1.9.1 (the default for Ubuntu 9.10). NOTE: this package is in the “universe” repository, so make sure “universe” is enabled.
I added the following line to the bottom of the file knime.ini: “-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner”. Don’t include the quotes though
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and adding -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib/xulrunner to my knime.ini worked for me. No other changes required.
Thanks for sharing the knowledge.
Pete
Apologies for the thread necromancy, but I have run into the same problem and have tried dealing with xulrunner.
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04, which from what I gather removed xulrunner from its package list, meaning that I've had to install it "manually" (using this guide - http://askubuntu.com/questions/125980/how-do-i-install-xulrunner-in-12-04 )
Though, after installing it (Firefox 14.0.1), creating the symbolic links and then adding the relevant line to the eclipse.ini file for the KNIME SDK, I still have the same problem. I've also tried pointing it to xulrunner-bin instead of xulrunner.sh but no luck (the .sh file in FireFox 14.0.1 seems to give errors about missing the mozilla run directory, though I have not managed to update FireFox yet).