Ubuntu
rxtx package

RXTX library not visible to any JRE

Bug #380027 reported by David A. Mellis on 2009-05-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #325506: /usr/lib/jni not put in java.library.path. Edit Remove

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Arduino	Unknown	Unknown	auto-code.google.com-20 #14
	rxtx (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

On 9.04, the librxtx-java package (version 2.1.7r2-4) installs in a way / location that's not visible to Sun's JRE (sun-java5-bin version 1.5.0-18-1). That is, I need to manually add /usr/lib to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and /usr/share/java/RXTXcomm.jar to my classpath in order to use RXTX. (I installed RXTX after the JRE.) Is it possible to install the library in a way that makes it automatically visible to the Sun JRE?

Alessio Igor Bogani (abogani) on 2009-11-04

Changed in rxtx (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Alessio Igor Bogani (abogani)
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Confirmed

Alessio Igor Bogani (abogani) on 2010-03-05

Changed in rxtx (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Alessio Igor Bogani (abogani) → nobody

Revision history for this message

Lars J. Nielsen (ebidk) wrote on 2010-03-05:

Ubuntu 9.10 with wih sun-java6-jre 6-15-1 and librxtx-java 2.1.7r2-4 also has this issue.

Alessio Igor Bogani (abogani) on 2010-03-20

Changed in rxtx (Ubuntu):
importance:	Low → Wishlist
summary:	- RXTX library not visible to Sun JRE 5 + RXTX library not visible to any JRE

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Scott Howard (showard314) wrote on 2010-06-24:

Thanks for the report. The RXTX library is installed in the correct location, per Debian policy [1]. The bug is actually in the JRE/JDKs for not looking in the right place. See bug #325506. I'm marking this bug a duplicate of that one.

This bug has been fixed in openjdk-6-jre :
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517338

I am using rxtx and openjdk-6-jre and it is fixed in lucid.

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/java-policy/x104.html