Installing Family Search Indexing on Ubuntu 14.04 (64bit)

[aebrown]

Does anybody know why familysearch does not update this to work with newer versions of Java?

I don't know for certain, but since the FamilySearch indexing development efforts are heavily focused on the new browser-based indexing application, it's understandable that the obsolescent Java-based indexing application would be rather neglected.

Why not give the chance to the lds community to contribute?
If the pioneers have build a shared irrigation system we can do it even for technology, isn't.

The Java-based system is going away. It would take significant effort to set up the project for community involvement, which would be just as much of an effort as fixing things. I doubt that the development managers at FamilySearch would welcome that distraction at this point.

[russellhltn]

If the pioneers have build a shared irrigation system we can do it even for technology, isn't.

The pioneers lived in a simpler time. Also, a mistake in a irrigation system wasn't likely to mess up things around the world.

[lajackson]

The pioneers lived in a simpler time. Also, a mistake in a irrigation system wasn't likely to mess up things around the world.

It sure could mess up things in the entire world in which the pioneers lived, however. [grin]

[russellhltn]

True, but it goes back to the old saying "to really mess things up takes a computer".

[rviertel]

I asked my question on askubuntu.com and here is the response that I got.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/832673/h ... untu-16-04

It worked perfectly for me

[ReimonPC]

Hello. What about RPM distros? I'm running Fedora 24 x64 here, and I get this message:

[rei@dhcppc7 ~]$ rm .install4j
[rei@dhcppc7 ~]$ sh Indexing_unix.sh
testing JVM in /usr ...
testing JVM in /usr/lib/jvm/jre ...
testing JVM in /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0 ...
testing JVM in /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0-openjdk ...
testing JVM in /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.111-1.b16.fc24.x86_64 ...
testing JVM in /usr/lib/jvm/jre-openjdk ...
No suitable Java Virtual Machine could be found on your system.
The version of the JVM must be at least 1.6 and at most 1.6.
Please define INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME to point to a suitable JVM.
You can also try to delete the JVM cache file /home/rei/.install4j

[marianomarini]

testing JVM in /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.111-1.b16.fc24.x86_64 ...
The version of the JVM must be at least 1.6 and at most 1.6.

As you can see, it want version 1.6 ONLY of JVM and you have 1.8. bla, bla, bla.

[ReimonPC]

testing JVM in /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.111-1.b16.fc24.x86_64 ...
The version of the JVM must be at least 1.6 and at most 1.6.

As you can see, it want version 1.6 ONLY of JVM and you have 1.8. bla, bla, bla.

Yes, I can see, and there is no 1.6 in repositories, so I'd like some guidance on what to do next. Of course, getting 1.6 is next. I need help on that. Maybe compile?

[marianomarini]

Yes, I can see, and there is no 1.6 in repositories, so I'd like some guidance on what to do next. Of course, getting 1.6 is next. I need help on that. Maybe compile?

See the rviertel suggestion!

[efrancis]

I can confirm that the steps listed in the Installation Instructions section of that askubuntu page should be distro-agnostic. I had to do similar when getting it set up on my fresh PCLinuxOS install which only has Java 8 in the repos (which I did rather blindly, but knowing that newer versions of the java runtime are backwards-compatible, took a bit of finagling to get the install script updated though. knowing about the patch would have saved me quite a bit of time and effort).