Can't install MultiBit

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I’ve installed openjdk-7-jdk and when try to install multibit with the command
java -jar multibit-0.5.17-linux.jar i get all this

No protocol specified Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:188) at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.getLocalGraphicsEnvironment(GraphicsEnvironment.java:82) at sun.swing.SwingUtilities2.isLocalDisplay(SwingUtilities2.java:1393) at javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel.initComponentDefaults(MetalLookAndFeel.java:1563) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicLookAndFeel.getDefaults(BasicLookAndFeel.java:147) at javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel.getDefaults(MetalLookAndFeel.java:1599) at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:530) at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:570) at javax.swing.UIManager.initializeDefaultLAF(UIManager.java:1320) at javax.swing.UIManager.initialize(UIManager.java:1407) at javax.swing.UIManager.maybeInitialize(UIManager.java:1395) at javax.swing.UIManager.getUI(UIManager.java:991) at javax.swing.JOptionPane.updateUI(JOptionPane.java:1878) at javax.swing.JOptionPane.<init>(JOptionPane.java:1841) at javax.swing.JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(JOptionPane.java:859) at javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(JOptionPane.java:668) at javax.swing.JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(JOptionPane.java:639) at com.izforge.izpack.installer.GUIInstaller.showFatalError(Unknown Source) at com.izforge.izpack.installer.GUIInstaller.<init>(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Class.java:374) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:327) at com.izforge.izpack.installer.Installer.main(Unknown Source)

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I don’t know multibit, haven’t tried either on Debian or in Whonix, but I see two possible causes for errors here.

How did you install openjdk? From Debian package sources? If not, uninstall what you installed. Then install from package sources.

sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

That might work better.

Also “No protocol specified” might imply you tried to start a graphical user interface application as root, which is recommended against. Start is as user, without using sudo.

multibit instructions for Debian stable (currently: wheezy) should also work for Whonix (which is based on that Debian version).

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I installed it with

sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
that’s what they recommend at

I see you’ve wrote
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

which I believe is the framework and they have recomended the development kit?
anyway, when i tried
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre

it said
openjdk-7-jre is already the newest version.
openjdk-7-jre set to manually installed.

so i guess it installed it as dependency already?

after writing all this i just tried running the installer again and it worked

i guess i might have been root previous time, huh!

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About the jre / jdk thing, follow them on this, not me. (jdk sounds more like toolkit indeed) My mistake.

Great that you got it working.

5

AFAIK jdk includes jre, so as long as they both are the same version, jre shall be enough to run Java bytecode. jdk is needed for compiling stuff from source.

6

Same problem, same solution.

Thanks.

7

I’ve got another issue with MB-HD/classic and Whonix.

I have electrum/MB-HD on Whonix.

MB-HD/MB-Classic on Host Osx.

I’ve got BTC on the Host when I paste the Wallet (s) address from the Whonix clients , the MB-HD on the host won’t accept it, says the wallet is invalid (well actually just goes red and won’t let you proceed). On the Classic it actually says not a valid address.

Which is weird because its a MB-HD generated address, just on Whonix.

I’ve also tried Electrum wallet address on Whonix, same issue both MB-HD and Classic.

Any thoughts?