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--- reprap_software [2007-10-02 14:19] – 192.168.1.33
+++ reprap_software [2007-10-05 10:39] – 192.168.1.48
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 ====== PPC java ======
-since we are using this mac laptop as the dedicated reprap machine, this page will contain some rants about dealing with the ppc peculiarity. first up, java. the [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java|ubuntu java]] page suggests using the IBM jdk. Hint: the package you want to install (after adding the medibuntu repository and key) is ''ibm-j2sdk1.5''.
+since we are using this mac laptop as the dedicated [[reprap]] machine, this page will contain some rants about dealing with the ppc peculiarity. first up, java. the [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java|ubuntu java]] page suggests using the IBM jdk. Hint: the package you want to install (after adding the medibuntu repository and key) is ''ibm-j2sdk1.5''.
 you also need the following packages (further details may ba found at http://packages.ubuntu.com/)
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   * mesa-common-dev (for glext.h)
-the j3d source
+the java3d source
   * register at https://java3d.dev.java.net/ and follow the instructions for checkingout vecmath, j3d-core and j3d-core-utils.
   * run ant in vecmath, then j3d-core directories
+note that the java3d source packages are called ''j3d-*'', don't confuse this with the j3d.org site and it's utility libraries. one of which you also need.
 ===== RXTX =====
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 sudo cp -v j3d-core/build/linux-ppc/opt/native/ogl/objs/libj3dcore-ogl.so /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-ibm/jre/bin/
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+(the first one is the j3d.org jar file we need which contains the STLLoader and is linked from the [[http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRapLinuxSoftware#The_j3d_org_3D_utility_library|ReprapLinuxSoftware]] page)
 and finally, we were getting a lot of errors like: