I found today that Java has a Media Extension with all kinds of sound and video goodies built in. I went to the Oracle site to install the extension, and they had two packages to install on my Linux machine. One was a .bin file, so it has to be installed with a shell script. The other was a zip file. Also, there are environment variables to set so that the Java compiler can know the files are present. Well, pretty straightforward, until you run then shell script.
Then bash reports errors in the shell script! Missing end parenthesis and some unknown other symbols that apparently are a result of something exploding in the file downloaded from the Oracle site. So it's a no-go on the install. There is no way to read the .bin file to see what is wrong. Back to square one. See if the files can be manually installed tomorrow.
No comments:
Post a Comment