Comment 8 for bug 1770391

Hi,
you can start Josm on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS by running the java program directly. that is not the bug fix but allow to run josm in the meantime :)

first make sure that a java virtual machine is installed, for that enter in a terminal

foo@bar:~$ java --version
openjdk 10.0.2 2018-07-17
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 10.0.2+13-Ubuntu-1ubuntu0.18.04.4)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0.2+13-Ubuntu-1ubuntu0.18.04.4, mixed mode)

if you have the command "java" then a virtual machine is installed and then execute the java compilled file with

foo@bar:~$ cd /usr/share/josm/
foo@bar:/usr/share/josm$ java -jar josm.jar