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

[Andy Allan]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Nathan Scott
<scottn at omnitechsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
> Ok this may seem like a daft question, but how do you set the path so it
>  uses version 1.6?
>
>  I've installed JAVA1.6 from Sun, but not sure how to force the JAVA calls to
>  use it?

If you are using ubuntu, the following may help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java#head-fef9352fb26820bb774df978180c9dd3a60e777b

Cheers,
Andy

>  Thanks and Regards,
>
>  Nathan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Hakan Tandogan" <hakan at gurkensalat.com>
>  To: <scottn at omnitechsolutions.co.uk>
>  Cc: <talk at openstreetmap.org>
>  Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 5:38 PM
>  Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] FW: Re: New to osmosis and it won't work for me
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>
>
>  On Fri, February 29, 2008 18:19, 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
>
>  o.k., next try: that "libgcj" suggests that you are using the GCJ VM,
>  which, according to its web page, "supports most of the 1.4 libraries plus
>  some 1.5 additions".
>
>  As far as I remember, Osmosis uses some 1.6 features, especially the
>  Geometry classes. There is a link to a 1.5 compatible version on the wiki
>  ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Osmosis#Downloading ), but I'm
>  not sure how current that one is or if GCJ+Gnu Classpath is mature enough
>  to intepret that version.
>
>  You wrote in an earlier email that you already downloaded JDK1.6 for your
>  box. Maybe you need to explicitly set your path to that version?
>
>
>  Regards,
>  Hakan
>
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