batik is crashing (libbatik-java)

[Toufik]

Binary package hint: libbatik-java

Ubuntu Version : Ubuntu 9.10

$ apt-cache policy libbatik-java
libbatik-java:
  Installed: 1.7.ubuntu-4ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.7.ubuntu-4ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.7.ubuntu-4ubuntu1 0
        500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The repository version of batik (libbatik-java package) is crashing. Note that the official version from http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/ (same version mumber) works fine

$ java -jar /usr/share/java/batik.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/w3c/dom/svg/SVGDocument
 at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
 at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427)
 at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethod(Class.java:1935)
 at java.awt.Component.isCoalesceEventsOverriden(Component.java:5948)
 at java.awt.Component.access$500(Component.java:169)
 at java.awt.Component$3.run(Component.java:5902)
 at java.awt.Component$3.run(Component.java:5900)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.awt.Component.checkCoalescing(Component.java:5899)
 at java.awt.Component.<init>(Component.java:5868)
 at java.awt.Container.<init>(Container.java:251)
 at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:431)
 at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:403)
 at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:368)
 at javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:158)
 at org.apache.batik.apps.svgbrowser.JSVGViewerFrame.<init>(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.batik.apps.svgbrowser.Main.<init>(Unknown Source)
 at org.apache.batik.apps.svgbrowser.Main.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.w3c.dom.svg.SVGDocument
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:307)
 at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:248)
 ... 18 more

[Andrew Ross (rockclimb)]

As a workaround you can just run /usr/bin/squiggle which sets up your classpath for you. This is probably fixable by adding some extra jar files to the classpath in the manifest. I'll look into it.