Comments on: Running Blurb Booksmart in Linux (without Wine)

By: mac uninstall software

mac uninstall software — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:04:48 +0000

A true rescue in case you have no license for Windows in campus where creative arts are taught and tasks on text-and-pictures agre given

By: Sgarat

Sgarat — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:10:37 +0000

A nice addition to the selection of scripts for Linux. Works fine on university Ubuntu -based computers.

By: Tito

Tito — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:07:08 +0000

Hi! thank you very much for the post. It's really hopefull. I'd like to try but can't download the installer because the link takes me herre again. Isn't it yet available?

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:23:10 +0000

I've tried your method Sven, but I'm still getting exactly the same error as before. Any thoughts?

By: timgray

timgray — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:38:28 +0000

You rock! You gave me the one thing needed to get the wife's laptop away from Windows and to Linux.

Thanks!

By: trashtu

trashtu — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:30:55 +0000

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 32bit and it runs ok, but when i try to load some images, it crashes, if I start the program in root mode, it works, but very slow, it's unusable.
Do you have some idea?
Here is the output of the terminal:
version: 2.5.1.30022 jvm: 14.0-b16 jre: 1.6.0_0-b16 java: 1.6.0_0
java.lang.ClassCastException: com.blurb.booksmart.ui.ScrollProxyPopupMenuUI cannot be cast to javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthPopupMenuUI
at javax.swing.plaf.synth.DefaultMenuLayout.invalidateLayout(DefaultMenuLayout.java:52)
at javax.swing.BoxLayout.addLayoutComponent(BoxLayout.java:279)
at java.awt.Container.addImpl(Container.java:1107)
at java.awt.Container.add(Container.java:377)
at javax.swing.JPopupMenu.add(JPopupMenu.java:281)
at javax.swing.JMenu.add(JMenu.java:579)
at com.blurb.booksmart.views.pcl.AbstractBookPicturesPCL.createAndAddPhotoSourceSubMenu(AbstractBookPicturesPCL.java:568)
at com.blurb.booksmart.views.pcl.AbstractBookPicturesPCL.populateFilterPopupMenu(AbstractBookPicturesPCL.java:384)
at com.blurb.booksmart.views.pcl.AbstractBookPicturesPCL.rebuildFilterPopupMenu(AbstractBookPicturesPCL.java:295)
at com.blurb.booksmart.views.pcl.AbstractBookPicturesPCL$ImagesDownlodedHandler.onEvent(AbstractBookPicturesPCL.java:1487)
at org.bushe.swing.event.ThreadSafeEventService.publish(ThreadSafeEventService.java:938)
at org.bushe.swing.event.ThreadSafeEventService.publish(ThreadSafeEventService.java:845)
at org.bushe.swing.event.EventBus.publish(EventBus.java:67)
at com.blurb.booksmart.ui.dialogs.DownloadPanel$Copier.run(DownloadPanel.java:493)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636)

Thank you!

By: tom

tom — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:32:32 +0000

gave it a try and all works well to the point of importing photo's.
booksmart shuts down without importing pics and asks if I want to email blurb with the error.
I'm using ubuntu 8.04
I can import pictures succesfully if I run
sudo ./booksmart.sh

it's very nice what you have done, thank you, much farther along than I could have done.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:59:16 +0000

Thanks, you saved me a lot of work!

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:24:39 +0000

Furym, you probably get the same java exception as I mentioned few posts earlier. Mine installation also works with root permissions.

Tony

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:48:53 +0000

The link is fixed. Sorry, there was a hiccup with WordPress.

If you have successfully installed Booksmart via a different method, and are having problems using the software I'm not sure my version will help you at, but of course feel free to try anyway.