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Running Aptana Jaxer on Ubuntu 8.04

Posted June 5th, 2008 by Chris

I’ve not had any time to try out Jaxer yet, but the idea of a single platform for both client and server-side processing sounds good.

On trying to get started, though, one problem I encountered was that the installation instructions on Aptana’s site didn’t quite get Jaxer running on my default Ubuntu 8.04 install. The reason seems to be the built-in Apache trying to load an external library from 

/usr/lib

which doesn’t exist.

The library in question is libexpat.so.0; however, there is a libexpat.so.1.5.2 installed! You can check this by running:

$ ls -l /usr/bin | grep libexpat

Creating a link to this file in /usr/lib with:

$ ln -s libexpat.so.1.5.2 /usr/bin/libexpat.so.0

seems to have got Jaxer running and the server status looks good. If you’re having trouble getting a Jaxer server running on the latest Ubuntu, this might be worth giving a go.

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2 Responses to “Running Aptana Jaxer on Ubuntu 8.04”

  1. Francesco says:
    January 3, 2009 at 8:27 am

    This is a step-by-step guide to install jaxer using the existing apache2 installation on Ubuntu; hope it helps, thanks.

    http://doc.integrasoftware.it/tec/sis/pub/jaxer

  2. Chris says:
    January 3, 2009 at 6:05 pm

    Thanks Francesco,

    I’ve not played much with Japtana since this post as I’m concentrating all my efforts on learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails, but I’ll bookmark the link for any future Javascript work.

    Thanks,
    Chris

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