How can I install spark instant messenger client 2.6.3?

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One of a few things might be wrong:

Your script your trying to run isn't executable
You version of Java is not quite right for the Spark client:

sudo apt-get install galternatives

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin

(then use Gnome galternatives GUI to set the default)
Something else...

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Fred Garbutt

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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Fred Garbutt almost 2 years

I downloaded spark_2_6_3.tar.gz from http://www.igniterealtime.org/downloads/index.jsp.

After extracting the file and cding into Spark, I ran both ./starter and ./Spark but the messenger client is not running. I am using Ubuntu 11.10, 64 bit.
- nilsonneto about 12 years
  
  have you got java installed? If so - is this openjre or oracle jre? which version?
Thomas Ward about 12 years

sun-java6 does not exist in the repositories since 11.10. This is because Oracle's licensing on Java is incompatible with Ubuntu's packaging license requirements. Refer to help.ubuntu.com/community/Java for information about how to install Oracle java
tomodachi over 11 years

It requires Sun java to work, java 1.6 is apparently supported and works for me