JOVERSEER V1.0.12 Self installer/updater Kinstrife Order checker!

General
#1

Hi All,

We have produced a self installing version of JOverseer. Download, run it, it does the rest!
This also includes an automatic updater that will keep you up to date as we improve the program.

http://middleearthgames.com/soov.html

Click on the Rings to download the user guide as a pdf.

Please note that you do have to have Java installed as well.

http://middleearthgames.com/sojava.html

Installing these two programs should now be smooth and easy for 99% of you. If you hit any snag please PM us.

Dean

#2

DEAN: will Java run on a Linux operating system? Thanks!!

#3

Java is platform independent, but you will have to get a Linux install off it!

The Windows installer program will not work on Linux of course.

Dean

Here is what the programer said about the Mac/Linux version

Oh since it isn’t obvious.

There’s a bundled zip file for non-windows users
see the installation instructions on the wiki…
http://code.google.com/p/joverseer/wiki/InstallationInstructions
There’s no particular reason why it shouldn’t work on linux/mac
(the windows EXEs are only wrappers for java), but I haven’t tried it.

So the trick is to download it, suck it and see and report back.
Of course, make sure you have Java installed on whichever platform you are using!a

Cheers,
Dean

#4

Initially the order checker for the .12 version didn’t work for my KinStrife game, but after setting up a new KS game, re-importing the xmls and pdfs it works wonderfully well.

Thanks Dean and team, I’ve been looking forward to this functionality.

#5

Gald its good for you Klub, I too have really wanted it in my KS games!

For anyone NEW to JOVERSEER, do down load and read the USER guide.

There is a wealth of information in there and it helps you find out how to use the amazing things in JOVERSEER. I still have not discovered them all.

Dean :slight_smile:

#6

Presuming this installer is working for peoples as I have heard no comaplaints! :slight_smile:

Dean

#7

Here is some advice by the programmer about getting it going on a Linux system

"Hi Jerry,
It’s rather difficult to help without seeing precisely what is and isn’t happening.
I’ve just unpacked joverseer-libraries-v1.0.12 and got it running.
Your steps are likely to be slightly different, as I don’t know if you are working from the command line or not, or
which Linux ‘distro’ you are using.

if you run the command
‘java -version’
it should print the version of java installed, so check this first.

If you can perform the command
‘java -Xmx384M -jar joverseer.jar’
with the current directory set to wherever you unpacked the joverseer.jar file and the rest of the zip,
then jOverseer should run ok.

by ‘run command’ I mean from a command shell, which may be called bash,xterm,console,Konsole,terminal etc…
and you don’t type the single quotes at the beginning and end of the command.

I noticed a couple of problems with the unix-laucher.sh (sic) file:

  1. The ‘cd joverseer’ command is not wanted.
  2. The character encoding is for PCs instead of unix which may confuse things.

I suggest that you create a new file using a simple text editor (like notepad NOT one with multiple fonts like Word) in the same directory as joverseer.jar ‘start-joverseer.sh’ containing:
#/bin/sh
java -Xmx384M -jar joverseer.jar

Then the command
‘sh start-joverseer.sh’ should work.

To make it ‘clickable’ from a windowed environment, you need to add execute permission to the file:
‘chmod +x start-joverseer.sh’

Note: I don’t think email from within joverseer will work unix, so you’ll have to export/attach or cut paste into an email."