OpenJUMP
Linux

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OpenJUMP requires Java 1.5 or greater already installed.
To setup OpenJUMP in Linux or in Unix, use the following instructions; eventually see also Installation Instructions tips for all Operative Systems.

OpenJUMP Stable Version and OpenJUMP Nightly Build

• In the Jump Pilot Project download OpenJUMP Platform Indipendent

• The platform-independent version of OpenJUMP comes under the form of a compressed archive (ZIP).
  To install, decompress the archive in your hard drive, for example into c:/OpenJUMP
  You will see the following folder structure:
  • c:/OpenJUMP/
  • c:/OpenJUMP/bin
  • c:/OpenJUMP/lib

• In the BIN folder there are the statup scripts for Linux/Unix: openjump-unix.sh or openjump.sh. There is an improved script for unix: openjump-unix2.sh

• Eventually, to run OpenJUMP first make the startup script executable. For instance, if you want to use openjump.sh file, open the consolle and write:

chmod +x openjump.sh

(+x commmnd makes openjump script executable)

• Run Openjump by consolle with this command:

./openjump.sh

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A few notes about Linux installation:

1. The Java version to be run…

Linux Distros come with a open-source version of Java.
OpenJUMP will use that per default. Should one want to use Sun’s Java (recommended) some changes are necessary to the $JUMPHOME/bin/openjump-unix.sh script:

JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/latest/bin (usually there but distro-dependent—or wherever you’ve installed it)

The last line of the script (calling Java) should be like this:

$JAVA_HOME/java -Dswing.defaultlaf=javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel -Dlog4j.configuration=file:./log4j.xml -Xms512M -Xmx1024M -cp $CLASSPATH com.vividsolutions.jump.workbench.JUMPWorkbench -properties workbench-properties.xml -plug-in-directory $LIB/ext

2. Also be sure to correctly specify OpenJump’s installation folder in JUMPHOME.

3. From an Ubuntu 7.04 user with PostgreSQL 8.2 and PostGIS 1.3.1:

I spent a long time trying to get my OpenJump to open a PostGIS layer. The basic problem seemed to be OpenJump’s inability to find the JDBC jar file.

My JDBC for PostgreSQL is in /usr/share/java and is called postgresql-jdbc3-8.2.jar

When I appended /usr/share/java/postgresql-jdbc3-8.2.jar to the CLASSPATH= line, this allowed me to get at my PostGIS layers.

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