VMT 2.2.0 crashes

[Rodney D. Myers]

Debian etch/testing

from the shell (aka konsole);

java -jar /home/rodney/vehicle/VMT_2.2.0.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: while resolving class: vmt.Main
   at java.lang.VMClassLoader.transformException(java.lang.Class, java.lang.Throwable) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
   at java.lang.VMClassLoader.resolveClass(java.lang.Class) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
   at java.lang.Class.forName(java.lang.String, boolean, java.lang.ClassLoader)(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
   at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.lang.StringBuilder not found in gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:/home/rodney/vehicle/VMT_2.2.0.jar,file:./], parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.ExtensionClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}}
   at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String, boolean) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
   at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
   at java.lang.Class.forName(java.lang.String, boolean, java.lang.ClassLoader)(/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
   ...4 more

as you can tell from the error messages, I have libgcj6 installed

[EricW]

Try using Sun's Java 1.5.0+.

[Rodney D. Myers]

it's installed, and in my path. I had to add gcj to get OpenOffice installed.

Looks like I need to state the explicit path for java.

sorry about that