Ok, first off: We don’t claim to support FC4 but since Creator and it’s components are mostly Java, it should still work, right? 😉 I don’t know if my SuSE Linux systems are officially supported either. But I know that people try different flavors of Linux until they find one they like. So why not help them a bit?
The solution is a bit long, because FC4 doesn’t really like the J2SE 1.4, so a couple of steps normally done at the end of the install, have to be done by hand.
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Make sure, you have the following packages installed. Otherwise the installer will not even start.
- xorg-x11-deprecated-libs
- compat-libstdc++
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Install Creator 2ea. That will complain, that it can’t start the AppServer etc. That’s ok for now.
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Add the -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true option to the following files:
- <CREATOR_HOME>/SunAppServer8/pointbase/tools/serveroption/startserver.sh – last line
- <CREATOR_HOME>/SunAppServer8/bin/asadmin – last line
- <CREATOR_HOME>/SunAppServer8/domains/creator/config/domain.xml – As a new <jvm-options/> element
- <CREATOR_HOME>/SunAppServer8/imq/bin/imqbrokerd – to the _jvm_args variable
- <CREATOR_HOME>/rave2.0/startup/bin/run-sql-bundled.sh – last line
- <CREATOR_HOME>/etc/netbeans.conf – to the netbeans_default_options with the -J prefix!!
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Populate the examples etc:
- Go to <CREATOR_HOME>/bin
- run ./pe-start.sh
- run ./db-start.sh
- run ./create-travel-db.sh
- run ./deploy-ejbs.sh
- run ./deplo-ws.sh
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Finally, run ./creator and enjoy!
I hope that helps a bit.
Update for Creator 2 Final (Wed Jan 25 11:15:31 PST 2006):
We switched to JSE 5.0 for Creator 2 EA2 and Final. So all the hand editing is not needed any longer!
Have fun.
— Marco