Mediathekview does not start because it cannot find its main class

[Allo]

console output:

$ LANG=C mediathekview
Error: Unable to initialize main class mediathek.Main
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/jidesoft/utils/ThreadCheckingRepaintManager

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: mediathekview 13.0.6-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-8.9-generic 4.18.7
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Fri Oct 19 00:15:22 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-09-29 (19 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Beta amd64 (20180927)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: mediathekview
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[imd10 (imd10)]

same problem here after upgrading from Ubuntu Desktop 18.04 to 18.10 (Gnome desktop)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package mediathekview - 13.2.1-2

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mediathekview (13.2.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add libguava-java as a new dependency too.
    Thanks to Reinhard Karcher for the report. (Closes: #914093)

 -- Markus Koschany <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Nov 2018 12:44:02 +0100

[Allo (allo)]

Will the fix be backported to Ubuntu cosmic?

[Pablo Hörtner (redtux2000)]

This critical bug still remains in cosmic (Ubuntu 18.10). Nor installing libguava-java nor using openjdk-8-jre instead of openjdk-11-jre seems to help.

mediathekview:
  Installed: 13.0.6-1
  Candidate: 13.0.6-1
  Version table:
 *** 13.0.6-1 500
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Ancoron Luziferis (ancoron)]

The package "libjide-oss-java", which is a dependency of "mediathekview" does not provide a symlink for the required classpath entry "/usr/share/java/jide-oss.jar".

This leads to the class-not-found error, instead of complaining about the missing classpath library.

Temporary workaround:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/java/jide-oss-3.7.4.jar /usr/share/java/jide-oss.jar