Ubuntu-Mate 18.04 - ProjectLibre problems

[alpinejohn]

Hello

Having managed to get ProjectLibre to open without crashing:

Ubuntu-Mate 18-04 - some Java dependant programs crash - a solution

Hallo I use two Java dependant programs, Freeplane and ProjectLibre. Having updated to Ubuntu-Mate 18.04 I found that I could install Freeplane, but that it crashed when launched. If a program crashes when being launched one of the best things to do is to start the program from the terminal, as you will then usually see the reason for the crash. Having launched Freeplane from the terminal a lot of comment was produced which included the following: Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTEr…

… I face another difficulty - freezing - which can be brought on by trying to save the project document, close the open document, close the ProjectLibre window etc.

This seems to be a ProjectLibre problem and a bug report is open:

https://sourceforge.net/p/projectlibre/tickets/146/

My work-around is to install MX Linux in a VM and use ProjectLibre in that where it works as expected.

Does anyone have a different experience with ProjectLibre on 18.04 e.g other work-arounds or does it “just work” for you?

Edit 13.10.2018
A simple work-around has now been posted on Sourceforge, which I have added to my post about generalised Java-related problems on 18.04:

Ubuntu-Mate 18-04 - some Java dependant programs crash - a solution

Hallo In fact the above fix (my previous post) did not solve all my java-related problems. There was still a problem with ProjectLibre and Java 11. Neil James Devine kindly posted a fix on Sourceforge, where I had filed a bug report: https://sourceforge.net/p/projectlibre/tickets/146/ The work around consists of installing oracle java 8 and setting it to be the default version of java. Open a terminal (CTRL + Alt + T) and enter and run the following commands: sudo add-apt-reposito…

I hope that helps users of ProjectLibre on Ubuntu-Mate.