Startup error using Ubuntu

[ThanosIsKing]

Hey all. I want to say that I love the program, and I had many fun hours playing it prior to this past summer, when I switched my OS over to Ubunbu. Even though I've been using it for a while now, I still consider myself an amateur when it comes to the finer points of the OS. More specifically, when I try to run MTG Forge using WINE, I get a message saying that Java is not detected, despite having pretty much every conceivable permutation of the most up-to-date version of Java installed on this thing. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to start MTG Forge through the terminal? If so, how exactly do I do that? Or is there something extra I need to do with WINE in order to get MTG Forge to work?

Thanks and keep up the great work!

[DennisBergkamp]

Yeah, try running it through the terminal:

javac -jar run-forge.jar

Should work

[Rob Cashwalker]

in other words, skip WINE, and let the native Java installed in UBuntu handle the JAR file. The EXE isn't necessary.

[ThanosIsKing]

Dennis: Tried that. Made a little bit of progress. Apparently the terminal didn't recognize that I had installed Java 6 through the Add/Remove Applications route. So I installed Java 6 using the terminal (it also didn't recognize the javac command). However, I'm now getting an error in the terminal that states:

javac: invalid flag: -jar
Usage: javac <options> <source files>
use -help for a list of possible options

So I input javac -help, and I don't see the -jar option anywhere. Not under javac -help, and not under javac -X (which is the "advanced" options).

Rob: Trying multiple times to open the run-forge.jar using both OpenJDK Java 6 Runtime and Sun Java 6 Runtime. Nothing happens when attempting either.

[DennisBergkamp]

Oops! Try "java -jar run-forge.jar" instead.

[ThanosIsKing]

That worked! Thanks muchly!

[DennisBergkamp]

Nice! Yes, I messed up that first time, javac is for compiling

[silly freak]

if you can't access java without specifying the full path, you don't have it in your path. you could solve that by adding your <<java>>/bin directory in /etc/environment:

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sudo gedit /etc/environment

and then append the java directory

wine is useful, but pointless with java^^

and one last note don't get trapped in using

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java -jar ~/forge/run-forge.jar

instead, use

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cd ~/forge
java -jar run-forge.jar

otherwise, the needed forge.properties is not found

(I realize that it's already working for you, interpret this as a proactive answer to later, similar problems )