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1 Nov
If you had a previous installation of Aptana Studio in hardy and now that you’ve upgraded to ibex it no longer works then you aren’t alone. It no longer works since during the upgrade Firefox 2 was removed from your system, and there isn’t a way to put it back in as its been removed from the package manager.
Luckily the fix is easy…
sudo apt-get install xulrunner
Then you’ll need to either edit or create a startup script for Aptana to use. So make a file called “runAptana.sh” in /usr/local/aptana and inside that put…
#!/bin/bash
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/xulrunner
/usr/local/aptana/AptanaStudio
Then, whenever you want to run Aptana use that script instead; otherwise you’ll get those nasty errors which hamper your daily work efforts!
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[...] It no longer works since during the upgrade Firefox 2 was removed from your system, and there isn’t a way to put it back in as its been removed from the package manager. Luckily the fix is easy… sudo apt-get install xulrunner ..Limi's Sphere of Influence – Aptana on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex … [...]
Thank you SO much.
I almost committed suicide…
don’t work
@Alex
What error do you get instead?
thank you for the interest, I work with ubuntu 8.10 and when I execute the script that sets up the Aptana Studio environment, than the ide disappear and show a message:
JVM terminated. Exit code=127
/usr/bin/java
-Xmx384M
-Xms128M
-Djava.awt.headless=true
-jar /usr/local/aptana/startup.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86
-launcher /usr/local/aptana/AptanaStudio
-name Aptana
-showsplash 600
-exitdata d8010 Studio
-vm /usr/bin/java
-vmargs
-Xmx384M
-Xms128M
-Djava.awt.headless=true
-jar /usr/local/aptana/startup.jar
Thank you! This worked!
Aptana en Ubuntu Intrepid zonder Firefox 2…
Aptana en Ubuntu Intrepid gaan niet altijd even goed samen. Een van de vervelende problemen is dat er geen Firefox 2 beschikbaar is voor Ubuntu Intrepid. En Aptana heeft dat wel nodig. Onder Ubuntu Hardy kon je nog zelf handmatig Firefox 2 installere…
I have the same error as alex mentioned.
@alex: Any solution found?
@alex & @seacyd
Can you confirm what version of xulrunner you have installed. In the synaptic package manager there are two entries, one is labeled “xulrunner” the other is labelled “xulrunner-1.9″. I have both installed on my machine, do you?
@Limi
Yes, I too have both versions:
* 1.8.1.16+nobinonly-0ubuntu1 (/usr/lib/xulrunner)
* 1.9 /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.0.3
I installed the version 1.8.1.3 (downloaded as tgz from Mozilla) and linked it to this directory.
Still it does not work (error message as above described by Alex).
To add to my message:
I have just had progress. I can open Aptana Studio again (it worked at the beginning). I removed from the plugin directory all Radrails plugins which I installed recently (however, I could open Aptana once with the fully installed Radrails).
So, thanks.
BTW, thanks also for this blog note.
I tried it the same way, but got the same error as alex and seacyd.
Additional information: When I run the script using “sudo” it works fine.
@alex and @seacyd: Can you confirm this?
THX ALOT!
Saved me tons of headache. Worked like a charm!
Thanks a lot!! been struggling trying to get this to work for a couple of nights
You de man!
I had the same problem as alex and seacyd. I solved my first problem by writing a script as mentioned above. Then exit code = 127 problem aroused. Although xulrunner 1.9.0.6 was installed on my system, I installed 1.8.1.13 in addition to that and gave older one’s path into my script. It’s done!
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