how to install aptana in ubuntu 8.10?

Question

i tried installing aptana in ubuntu but in vain . can any one tell me a detailed procedure of how to do it ..

Answer 1

Well,

• I'd say go to http://www.aptana.com/studio/download
• Choose the "standalone", "Linux", "32 bits" version
• Download

Once the download is over, unzip the downloaded archive :
Yeah, you are using a 32bits machine, so this will not be exactly that name -- I'm on 64 bits.

$ unzip Aptana_Studio_Setup_Linux_x86_64_1.5.1.zip
$ cd Aptana\ Studio\ 1.5/
$ ./AptanaStudio &

And this should launch it.

If this doesn't work, you might want to take a look at the Aptana Studio System Requirements page.
Are you OK with those ?

One thing you should take care, especially, is the version of JAVA you're using : you should not use the "non-sun" version.

What I mean is you should have installed a package like sun-java5-bin or sun-java5-jre or sun-java6-bin or sun-java6-jre ; is that OK for you ?

That means when using "java -version" from the command-line, you should get something like this :

$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.4.1) (6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu10)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b08, mixed mode)

Note the first line is the official "java" ; others, like OpenJDK must come after that one;

If it still doesn't work, what kind of error do you get ?
Is there any error displayed ? What if you launch it from the command-line (see what I did earlier) : do you have anything interesting displayed there ?

For a couple more ideas, you can also take a look at links like those :

• Installing and Running Aptana on Ubuntu 8.10
• Installing Aptana Studio on Ubuntu 8.10 or Xubuntu 8.10

Hope this helps ;-)