Ubuntu – Problem installing Gephi after installing PPA and Oracle Java 8

software installation

I have been having some issues with installing gephi recently on Trusty. The following are in my repository:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/rockclimb/gephi-testing/ubuntu trusty main
http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu trusty main

When I

sudo apt-get install gephi

I get

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gephi : Depends: libgoogle-collections-java but it is not installable

When I tried to look for the package, it says that the repo is no longer being updated. I then managed to find an old copy of the package here:

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/libgoogle-collections-java

But for some reason when i tried to install it using:
tar -zxvf 'tarball'

Nothing seems to be happening. Does anyone know what I am missing?

Edit: The splash screen appears, and gehpi seems to try to initialize. However it seems to fail and stop after a while.

Best Answer

The way to fix this is to go to:

sudo gedit /etc/environment

and add:

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/bin/java"

Then run the script normally

./bin/gephi

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You can use

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-jdk7-installer

This will install Oracle JVM and will update it when needed.

But if you want to install JVM manually, you should use these commands:

tar -xzf jre-7u51-linux-i586.tar.gz
sudo mv jre1.7.0_51/ /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.7.0_51

Then run

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.7.0_51/jre/bin/java

and

$ sudo update-alternatives --config java
There are 3 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).

  Selection    Path                                       Priority   Status
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java    1061      auto mode
  1            /usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-6-sun/jre/bin/java   63        manual mode
  2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java    1061      manual mode
  3            /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java        63        manual mode
  4            /usr/lib/jvm/jre1.7.0_51/jre/bin/java       4         manual mode  

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

Follow the instructions on screen. Your numbers would be quite different from mine.

Ubuntu – get an error trying to install php5-intl

Force the installation of version 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4

sudo apt-get install php5-common=5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4

Version 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4 can't be installed in the normal way, because your installed version has a higher version number.

After reading your comments and your updated question, your system is pretty shot up. Why do you use PPAs or install deb files if you do not know how to handle it?

I suspect you've used PPAs from here. Therefore

Re-add the PPAs

Upgrade your system. We need a defined state

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Decide whether you want to keep the PPAs
- If your answer is yes, stop here
- If your answer is no, read on
  
  Install a little helper
```
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
```
  Purge the PPAs, eg ppa:ondrej/apache2
```
sudo ppa-purge ppa:ondrej/apache2
```
  Repeat the previous step for all PPAs that you do not want to keep

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