vqServer Linux



This page covers requirements, installation and use of vqServer on computers running Linux, Solaris or other UNIX-like operating systems. Ignore it if you're using a Windows or Macintosh computer.

Requirements

  1. X-Windows.
  2. A Java Virtual Machine complying with version 1.1 or 1.2 of Sun's Java specification which is compatible with your operating system. You can download a suitable JVM (they're free):

Installation

  1. Extract the vqServer distribution archive (vqserver.zip) to a folder (which will be refered to as your website/ directory in this documentation). You'll need to use a utility such as unzip which is supplied with most Linux distributions (but may not be installed). You cannot extract vqserver.zip using tar.
  2. Delete the Windows executable, vqServer.exe, from your website/ directory. You won't need it.

Startup

  • Open a shell window.
  • Change to your website/ directory by typing cd website in the shell window and press the Enter key. Do not omit this very important step!
  • Start your Java interpreter, specifying the application class file location classes/classes.zip and the executable class vq.server.console. The appropriate command line will be something like
    • jre -cp classes/classes.zip vq.server.console or
    • java -classpath classes/classes.zip:javahome/lib/classes.zip vq.server.console.

    The absence of capital letters in these commands is deliberate. A few initialisation messages will be displayed on the console and the vqServer window will appear.

  • Many Java implementations on UNIX-like operating systems contain bugs which prevent the vqServer window from displaying or operating correctly. If this is the case, you can use vqServer without the GUI window by appending the -nogui option to the command line you use to start vqServer, in which case the vqServer console will be displayed instead of the GUI window. The vqServer console must be run in the foreground of a shell window.
  • Read the after starting vqServer section of the documentation.


vqServer version 1.9. Copyright © 1997-2000 Steve Shering and vqSoft. Last updated 30 June 1999.

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