Hi Andy, It worked. This is a case of my unfamiliarity with syntax for passing parameters to java commands. At least if anyone else new to Eyeball experiences this they can get round it.
Thanks for this and much appreciated. Lewis ________________________________________ From: Andy Seaborne [[email protected]] Sent: 24 May 2011 17:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Setting classpath in Eyeball It would be: export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:'/home/lewis/trunk/lib/*' Java 6 allows /* to mean all jars in a directory - use '' to stop the shell expanding the * (yes - there is no ".jar") java -cp '/home/lewis/trunk/lib/*' jena.eyeball .... > like this > lewis@lewis-desktop:~/trunk$ export > CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/lewis/trunk/lib/ > and like this > lewis@lewis-desktop:~/trunk$ export CLASSPATH=$PATH:/home/lewis/trunk/lib/ > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: jena/eyeball > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: jena.eyeball > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) > Could not find the main class: jena.eyeball. Program will exit. > > I apologise that this is obviously a trivial problem but it is starting to > drive me crazy. ARQ includes: ARQ/bin/make_classpath $DIR which builds classpaths and hunts around for class es directories as well. ------------------- I did this: Download eyeball: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jena/files/Eyeball/Eyeball%202.3/eyeball-2.3.zip/download ~/Desktop >> unzip -q eyeball-2.3.zip ~/Desktop >> cd eyeball-2.3 ~/Desktop/eyeball-2.3 >> ls README.txt build.xml etc/ lib/ src/ testcases/ ReleaseNotes.text doc/ examples/ mirror/ src-test/ ~/Desktop/eyeball-2.3 >> java -cp 'lib/*' jena.eyeball -version Eyeball 2.3RC1 (A Verbs Omen) (I do not know why is it 2.3RC1) Andy Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service - www.altman.co.uk/emailsystems Glasgow Caledonian University is a registered Scottish charity, number SC021474 Winner: Times Higher Education’s Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2009 and Herald Society’s Education Initiative of the Year 2009. http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,6219,en.html Winner: Times Higher Education’s Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers of the Year 2010, GCU as a lead with Universities Scotland partners. http://www.gcu.ac.uk/newsevents/news/bycategory/theuniversity/1/name,15691,en.html
