[OSM-talk] FW: Re: New to osmosis and it won't work for me

[Jason Reid]

scottn at omnitechsolutions.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Better but I now get:
> esys at esys-desktop:~/osmosis-0.24$ sh do_it
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassFormatError: com.bretth.osmosis.core.Osmosis (unrecognized class file version)
>    at java.lang.VMClassLoader.defineClass(libgcj.so.70)
>    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(libgcj.so.70)
>    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(libgcj.so.70)
>    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(libgcj.so.70)
>    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.70)
>    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(libgcj.so.70)
>    at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libgcj.so.70)
> esys at esys-desktop:~/osmosis-0.24$ 
>
> Contents of do_it:
> java -mx1024m -jar osmosis.jar --read-xml file=uk-080227.osm \
> --bounding-polygon file="MyArea.txt" --write-xml \
> file="MyArea.osm"
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Nathan
>
>
> On Fri, February 29, 2008 17:28, scottn at omnitechsolutions.co.uk wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I am trying to get osmosis to work for me for the first time.  I'm not
>> sure I have it installed properly because I try this :
>>
>> java -mx1024m -jar osmosis.jar --read-xml file=uk-080227.osm
>> --bounding-polygon file="MyArea.txt" --write-xml
>> file="MyArea.osm"
>>     
>
> Those three lines are seperate lines in the script called "do_it", right?
> Please add a backslash after the first two lines, otherwise the shell
> assumes that it has to run three commands, one calles "java", the next
> called "--bounding-polygon" and the third called "file=".
>
> Your script should look like:
>
> --- cut here ---
> java -mx1024m -jar osmosis.jar --read-xml file=uk-080227.osm \
> --bounding-polygon file="MyArea.txt" --write-xml \
> file="MyArea.osm"
> --- cut here ---
>
>   
>> And I get:
>> esys at esys-desktop:~/osmosis-0.24$ sh do_it
>> ...
>> gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run(libgcj.so.70) do_it: 2: --bounding-polygon:
>> not found esys at esys-desktop:~/osmosis-0.24$
>>     
>
> This output supports my theory about your shell script.
>
>
> Regards,
> Hakan
>
>
>
>   
It appears that you are using GJC (the GNU java runtime), I'm not sure 
if osmosis is fully compatible with it. According to the wikipage it 
requires Java 1.6 (aka Java 6) to run.

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