Thread: Problems installing/running Alice 2.0 in Ubuntu 10.10

i'm having trouble getting alice 2.0 run on ubuntu 10.10 machine. extract tarball /opt per usual , change ownership of folder myself can run it.

when moving folder in terminal ./run-alice told in readme gets stuck. here's output:

code:

matt@bertha:/opt/alice/required$ ./run-alice  attempting register mp3 capability...   java.lang.reflect.invocationtargetexception  registered succesfully  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/gnu/getopt-1.0.7.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/gnu/getopt-1.0.7.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/jython-2.1/jython.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/jython-2.1/jython.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/lib/alice.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/lib/alice.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/jogl/lib/jogl.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/jogl/lib/jogl.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/xerces-2_6_2/resolver.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/xerces-2_6_2/resolver.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/vecmath/lib/ext/vecmath.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/vecmath/lib/ext/vecmath.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/xerces-2_6_2/xercesimpl.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/xerces-2_6_2/xercesimpl.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/xerces-2_6_2/xml-apis.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/xerces-2_6_2/xml-apis.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/xerces-2_6_2/xmlparserapis.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/xerces-2_6_2/xmlparserapis.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/jmf-2.1.1e/lib/customizer.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/jmf-2.1.1e/lib/customizer.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/jmf-2.1.1e/lib/jmf.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/jmf-2.1.1e/lib/jmf.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/jmf-2.1.1e/lib/mediaplayer.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/jmf-2.1.1e/lib/mediaplayer.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/jmf-2.1.1e/lib/multiplayer.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/jmf-2.1.1e/lib/multiplayer.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/opt/alice/required/mp3/lib/ext/mp3plugin.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/opt/alice/required/mp3/lib/ext/mp3plugin.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/resources.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/resources.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/rt.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/rt.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/jsse.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/jsse.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/jce.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/jce.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/charsets.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/charsets.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/netx.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/netx.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/plugin.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/plugin.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/rhino.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/rhino.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/pulse-java.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/pulse-java.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/sunpkcs11.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/sunpkcs11.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/localedata.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/dnsns.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/sunjce_provider.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: processing new jar, '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/gnome-java-bridge.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/gnome-java-bridge.jar'  *sys-package-mgr*: can't write index file  java.lang.indexoutofboundsexception: invalid index  	at javax.swing.defaultrowsorter.convertrowindextomodel(defaultrowsorter.java:514)  	at sun.swing.filepane$sortablelistmodel.getelementat(filepane.java:657)  	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.basiclistui.updatelayoutstate(basiclistui.java:1359)  	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.basiclistui.maybeupdatelayoutstate(basiclistui.java:1310)  	at javax.swing.plaf.basic.basiclistui.getcellbounds(basiclistui.java:951)  	at javax.swing.jlist.getcellbounds(jlist.java:1617)  	at javax.swing.jlist.ensureindexisvisible(jlist.java:1133)  	at sun.swing.filepane.ensureindexisvisible(filepane.java:1665)  	at sun.swing.filepane.dodirectorychanged(filepane.java:1591)  	at sun.swing.filepane.propertychange(filepane.java:1638)  	at java.beans.propertychangesupport.fire(propertychangesupport.java:298)  	at java.beans.propertychangesupport.firepropertychange(propertychangesupport.java:291)  	at java.beans.propertychangesupport.firepropertychange(propertychangesupport.java:229)  	at java.awt.component.firepropertychange(component.java:8118)  	at javax.swing.jfilechooser.setcurrentdirectory(jfilechooser.java:585)  	at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.authoringtool.worldsdirectorychanged(authoringtool.java:478)  	at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.authoringtool.dialoginit(authoringtool.java:631)  	at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.authoringtool.<init>(authoringtool.java:413)  	at edu.cmu.cs.stage3.alice.authoringtool.jalice.main(jalice.java:131)

any ideas?

hmm, taking stab here, u got super user priv? looks can't write files here... can't write index or cache file i'm assuming need.

*sys-package-mgr*: can't write cache file '/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/ext/gnome-java-bridge.jar' *sys-package-mgr*: can't write index file java.lang.indexoutofboundsexception: invalid index

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