Installing DROID on OS Sierra 10.12.6

[Jenny Hunt NRS]

I am new to OS and am having a bit of trouble installing DROID. I have Java 1.8 which is sitting in Library/Internet Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java and the droid-bInary-6 folder is currently sitting in my Downloads folder. When I double-click on droid.sh the text of the file opens, rather than starting up DROID. I've moved droid-binary-6 into Documents but no difference. I'm so used to Windows I don't know what to do now!

Thanks

Jenny

[Ross Spencer]

Hi Jenny,

If you can do the following from the terminal command line (which can be opened using ctrl-alt-t):

     $>java -version

Your should see something like this (Java versions may vary (and note, I'm running OpenJDK not Oracle)):

     openjdk version "1.8.0_131"

     OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-8u131-b11-2ubuntu1.17.04.3-b11)

     OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)

This will tell you Java is installed in a way that can be used. If you don't see this then you'll need to do that first from the Oracle website. Google: Oracle Java JDK. There'll be separate instructions.

Once you've established Java is okay. If your droid folder within Downloads looks like this:

     drwxr-xr-x 3 username username   4096 Aug 20 15:48 .

     drwxr-xr-x 4 username username   4096 Aug 27 22:56 ..

     -rw-r--r-- 1 username username   2879 Aug  1 15:44 ChangeLog

     -rw-r--r-- 1 username username   5606 Aug  1 15:57 droid.bat

     -rw-r--r-- 1 username username 139114 Aug  1 15:55 droid-command-line-6.4.jar

     -rw-r--r-- 1 username username   5103 Aug  1 15:57 droid.sh

     -rw-r--r-- 1 username username 672865 Aug  1 15:56 droid-ui-6.4.jar

     drwxrwxrwx 2 username username  20480 Aug  1 15:57 lib

     -rw-r--r-- 1 username username   1549 Aug  1 15:44 LICENSE

     -rw-r--r-- 1 username username   3075 Aug  1 15:57 Running DROID.txt

Which can be found by doing the following:

     $>ls -la

Then you can just run the following (replacing the x with the correct version):

     $>java -jar droid-ui-6.x.jar

And it should run. This should be enough.

For the .sh to work then you might need to add execution permissions from the droid folder:

    $>chmod +x droid.sh

And then you can run it using:

    $>./droid.sh

And then it will run within the default parameters established by TNA. 

I hope that helps. 

Ross

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[Jenny Hunt NRS]

Thanks Ross, that seems to be working. I hadn't installed Java properly, so that didn't help, and I thought I could just double-click on the droid.sh file within Finder and that would open it. But it's opening fine from the command line.

J :-)

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