KNIME and Ubuntu 9.10

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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.

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Hi, Max

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:

type on the terminal:

sudo apt-get install xulrunner-1.9.1

hope this helps
uwe

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Hi Uwe,

this xulrunner thing did not fix the bug for me…
the workaround for the “push button and nothing happens problem” dit it quite well though…

rgds,
BJFR

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Hi Uwe,
Thank you, but problem, possibly, not in xulrunner. I have installed the latest version of xulrunner, but problem is not fixed.

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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 :frowning:

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Thank you, Thor, I try to do this.

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hey max,

i run in the same problem and reading following thread helped:

also i adjusted the proposed script solution like this:

#!/bin/sh
export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1
/usr/local/apps/knime/knime

hth,
andreas

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I use KNIME 2.1.1 and Ubuntu 9.10. To get it working I did the following:

  1. 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.

  2. 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 :slight_smile:

Hope that helps,
Arthur

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Arthur, thank you very much. It’s work fine!

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I ran into the same problems.

I use KNIME 2.1.2 and OpenSUSE 11.2 64 bit.
To get it working I had to do the following:

  1. First the repository for OpenSUSE 11.1 had to be added as the 11.2 repository doesn’t provide versions before xulrunner-1.9.1

  2. Get the xulrunner version with yast (GUI) or sudo zypper install mozilla-xulrunner-1.9.0.4

  3. Add the following line to the bottom of the file knime.ini (eclipse.ini): -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9

Hope I can save someone the time I needed,
Olli

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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

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Hi all,

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).

Pointers would be greatly appreciated :)

 

Thanks in advance,

Ed.

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See http://tech.knime.org/faq#q6

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No worries, a colleage informed me that you can download the old binaries for XULRunner via the Eclipse/KNIME update portal.  Works fine now.

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EDIT:  Looks like thor beat me to it, ty :)

 

Ed.

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