Tip: Fix Java not finding libmawt.so (Ubuntu 8.10)
Just a quick fix for this problem–I’m more posting this for myself than anyone else. Anyhow, if you have at one point installed the non-official Java package and then installed the sun-java6-jre package set, you may be missing some things. The error I was getting was
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Can't load library: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so
The exact error being:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Can't load library: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/xawt/libmawt.so at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1666) at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:787) at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1022) at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1767) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1684) at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:840) at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1047) at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:67) at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:47) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1610) at java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:1632) at java.awt.Component.<clinit>(Component.java:568) at CreditSystem.main(CreditSystem.java:17)
The solution I found was to issue the following command
sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun
That will update your files and fix it. Fun fun…