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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!

Yeah, try running it through the terminal:

javac -jar run-forge.jar

Should work

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

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.

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

That worked! Thanks muchly!

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

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 )