NAM 41 installation Error on Linux using the .jar installer

[TheStronciumGuy 5]

Hi, im having a problem with the NAM installer on linux, i try to run the jar file with Java command and even chmod +x th  file to run it but it gives an exception that i'll paste here below:

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(java:14168): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:29.512: Não foi possível localizar a ferramenta de temas no module_path: "murrine",

(java:14168): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:29.512: Não foi possível localizar a ferramenta de temas no module_path: "murrine",

(java:14168): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:29.512: Não foi possível localizar a ferramenta de temas no module_path: "murrine",

(java:14168): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:29.512: Não foi possível localizar a ferramenta de temas no module_path: "murrine",

(java:14168): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:29.512: Não foi possível localizar a ferramenta de temas no module_path: "murrine",

(java:14168): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:29.513: Não foi possível localizar a ferramenta de temas no module_path: "murrine",

(java:14168): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:29.513: Não foi possível localizar a ferramenta de temas no module_path: "murrine",
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
    at installer.tree.JarEntryNode.getRenderer(JarEntryNode.java:294)
    at installer.tree.JarFileTreeRenderer.getTreeCellRendererComponent(JarFileTreeRenderer.java:22)
    at java.desktop/javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTreeUI$NodeDimensionsHandler.getNodeDimensions(BasicTreeUI.java:3155)
    at java.desktop/javax.swing.tree.AbstractLayoutCache.getNodeDimensions(AbstractLayoutCache.java:493)
    at java.desktop/javax.swing.tree.VariableHeightLayoutCache$TreeStateNode.updatePreferredSize(VariableHeightLayoutCache.java:1344)
    at java.desktop/javax.swing.tree.VariableHeightLayoutCache.updateNodeSizes(VariableHeightLayoutCache.java:903)
    at java.desktop/javax.swing.tree.VariableHeightLayoutCache.invalidateSizes(VariableHeightLayoutCache.java:371)
    at java.desktop/javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTreeUI.setCellRenderer(BasicTreeUI.java:465)
    at java.desktop/javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTreeUI$Handler.propertyChange(BasicTreeUI.java:3816)
    at java.desktop/java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.fire(PropertyChangeSupport.java:341)
    at java.desktop/java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(PropertyChangeSupport.java:333)
    at java.desktop/java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport.firePropertyChange(PropertyChangeSupport.java:266)
    at java.desktop/java.awt.Component.firePropertyChange(Component.java:8731)
    at java.desktop/javax.swing.JTree.setCellRenderer(JTree.java:775)
    at installer.screens.BrowseFilesPanel.<init>(BrowseFilesPanel.java:68)
    at installer.mainframe.InstallerTabs.<init>(InstallerTabs.java:48)
    at installer.mainframe.InstallerTabs.main(InstallerTabs.java:192)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    at installer.tree.JarEntryRenderer.<clinit>(JarEntryRenderer.java:38)
    ... 17 more

OS: "Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)"

Java :  openjdk version "11.0.9.1" 2020-11-04
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.9.1+1-post-Debian-1deb10u2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.9.1+1-post-Debian-1deb10u2, mixed mode, sharing)
 

Can someone help me with this bug? so i can install on my Steam SC4?

Thanks for your time

[JoulSauron 4]

I've had the exact same problem since the NAM 39 installer. I've installed the NAM 39 and 40 selecting each folder manually, it seems that I'll do the same for the NAM 41.

OS: Ubuntu 16.04

Java: openjdk version "11.0.11" 2021-04-20
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.16.04)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.16.04, mixed mode, sharing)

 

[TheStronciumGuy 5]

8 minutes ago, JoulSauron said:

I've had the exact same problem since the NAM 39 installer. I've installed the NAM 39 and 40 selecting each folder manually, it seems that I'll do the same for the NAM 41.

OS: Ubuntu 16.04

Java: openjdk version "11.0.11" 2021-04-20
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.16.04)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.11+9-Ubuntu-0ubuntu2.16.04, mixed mode, sharing)

 

Thanks for the reply

I'll try to do the manual install, its odd not running on linux but well happens 

[Henry Crun 75]

My main desktop is Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon Edition and the .jar file crashes as you described. I run a Virtualbox guest VM of Linux Mint 20 MATE Edition on the desktop OS and the .jar works perfectly. Both environments use JRE/JDK 11.0.10. I run SC4 under the PlayOnLinux WINE environment.

Sorry there's no fix in that but it shows it can work under Linux. Perhaps there's some distro component, possibly GNOME 3 related (?), nerfing the installer?

I'll have a go with NAM 41 and see if I can unearth anything concrete.

[TheStronciumGuy 5]

19 minutes ago, Henry Crun said:

My main desktop is Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon Edition and the .jar file crashes as you described. I run a Virtualbox guest VM of Linux Mint 20 MATE Edition on the desktop OS and the .jar works perfectly. Both environments use JRE/JDK 11.0.10. I run SC4 under the PlayOnLinux WINE environment.

Sorry there's no fix in that but it shows it can work under Linux. Perhaps there's some distro component, possibly GNOME 3 related (?), nerfing the installer?

I'll have a go with NAM 41 and see if I can unearth anything concrete.

That's actually interesting I'm curently running on Gnome and the exception seems to be on the UI I'll try on Cinammon to see but one think im not knowing to install too is the 4gb patch cause im on steam and i dunno how to run the patch to install on the steam game

[TheStronciumGuy 5]

1 hour ago, Henry Crun said:

My main desktop is Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon Edition and the .jar file crashes as you described. I run a Virtualbox guest VM of Linux Mint 20 MATE Edition on the desktop OS and the .jar works perfectly. Both environments use JRE/JDK 11.0.10. I run SC4 under the PlayOnLinux WINE environment.

 

I switched to Cinammon but still gives the exception its really odd 

[catty-cb 4,401]

Am using the latest Linux Mint with cinnamon desktop, to be honest can't help with your problem as while I do have the steam version of SC4 I haven't set it up to use NAM or any plugins, it's more for testing things.

For actually playing SC4 I use the GOG version and crossover and have never really had any issues with it.

[rsc204 21,814]

It's worth pointing out that the only thing you need from the installer process is the resulting Network Addon Mod folder in Plugins. In other words, a simple work-around is to use another OS and boot it off a USB stick or suchlike as a temporary system. From there run the installer, once it's created the Network Addon Mod folder, you just need to move that folder to the Plugins folder on your regular system somehow and you are done.

I hate to mention Windows in this context, but it's probably the most likely to just work, WinXP under VirtualBox works great for me on a Mac. Windows 10 I believe runs off a USB stick and you can just install and never register it (i.e. no costs). Otherwise, make us of an older version of Linux for the same purposes, so long as you can find a suitable copy of Java to run on it.

On 26/04/2021 at 5:43 PM, TheStronciumGuy said:

(java:14168): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:02:29.513: Não foi possível localizar a ferramenta de temas no module_path: "murrine",
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError

If I've understood this correctly, some library is missing, fixing that requires tracking down which library is needed and where to get it. I've done a search on the best translation I can match to the error, it tentatively looks like the missing library is canberra-gtk-module, see this thread.

Of course I can't say you should just run the command to install it in Terminal, it may be advisable to do some research first on what is is. It's also entirely possible this library is no longer compatible or functions with the latest linux releases.

[Henry Crun 75]

17 hours ago, TheStronciumGuy said:

I switched to Cinammon but still gives the exception its really odd 

It's my Cinnamon desktop that throws the exception. My MATE VM does not.

25 minutes ago, rsc204 said:

It's worth pointing out that the only thing you need from the installer process is the resulting Network Addon Mod folder in Plugins. In other words, a simple work-around is to use another OS and boot it off a USB stick or suchlike as a temporary system. From there run the installer, once it's created the Network Addon Mod folder, you just need to move that folder to the Plugins folder on your regular system somehow and you are done.

I hate to mention Windows in this context, but it's probably the most likely to just work, WinXP under VirtualBox works great for me on a Mac. Windows 10 I believe runs off a USB stick and you can just install and never register it (i.e. no costs). Otherwise, make us of an older version of Linux for the same purposes, so long as you can find a suitable copy of Java to run on it.

If I've understood this correctly, some library is missing, fixing that requires tracking down which library is needed and where to get it. I've done a search on the best translation I can match to the error, it tentatively looks like the missing library is canberra-gtk-module, see this thread.

Of course I can't say you should just run the command to install it in Terminal, it may be advisable to do some research first on what is is. It's also entirely possible this library is no longer compatible or functions with the latest linux releases.

I have a mirror copy of my plugins to play on a Win10 laptop so I've been using that to install NAM and the BSC EXE installers and then copying across to my Linux desktop (I'm using the GoG version of SC4) but it would be handy to run the NAM installer natively considering the frequency of recent releases!

AFAIK, Cinnamon was built on GNOME 3 components and MATE is built on GNOME 2. The linked thread mentions using a gtk 2.0 library so there might be something in that.

[Henry Crun 75]

I had a bit of time this morning to try a couple of things, including trying the installer on openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora Workstation 34 and Ubuntu 21.10. Worked okay on the first two but not Ubuntu. I unpacked and started ploughing through the .java files at the code causing the exception.

I slowly realised that SUSE and Fedora required me to elevate my permissions to root in order to install the Java Runtime. So, I tried running the installer from the terminal using sudo on both my main Mint Cinnamon desktop and on the Ubuntu 21.10 VM. I cd'd to the folder I had extracted the NAM zip file to and ran:

sudo java -jar NetworkAddonMod_Setup_Version41.jar

The installer pretty much works. The installation folder defaults to /root/SimCity 4/plugins/Network Addon Mod rather than my home folder so beware. I got another exception when performing the scan on the Cleanup/Depends tab but I carried on and installed successfully.

You can get a glitch if you run it, quit without installing and immediately try running it again. The installer is running but the UI is not visible. If you Ctrl-C in the terminal window, it quits and you can try again.

Here's some GLR action from Berlin with NAM 41 running on my Linux Mint 20 box. I started playing this game a little under a year ago and am amazed at all the great content and work from the community. Thank you all.

HTH

Dave

[TheStronciumGuy 5]

On 28/04/2021 at 7:12 PM, Henry Crun said:

I had a bit of time this morning to try a couple of things, including trying the installer on openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora Workstation 34 and Ubuntu 21.10. Worked okay on the first two but not Ubuntu. I unpacked and started ploughing through the .java files at the code causing the exception.

I slowly realised that SUSE and Fedora required me to elevate my permissions to root in order to install the Java Runtime. So, I tried running the installer from the terminal using sudo on both my main Mint Cinnamon desktop and on the Ubuntu 21.10 VM. I cd'd to the folder I had extracted the NAM zip file to and ran:

sudo java -jar NetworkAddonMod_Setup_Version41.jar

The installer pretty much works. The installation folder defaults to /root/SimCity 4/plugins/Network Addon Mod rather than my home folder so beware. I got another exception when performing the scan on the Cleanup/Depends tab but I carried on and installed successfully.

You can get a glitch if you run it, quit without installing and immediately try running it again. The installer is running but the UI is not visible. If you Ctrl-C in the terminal window, it quits and you can try again.

Here's some GLR action from Berlin with NAM 41 running on my Linux Mint 20 box. I started playing this game a little under a year ago and am amazed at all the great content and work from the community. Thank you all.

HTH

Dave

I...... just feel Ashamed

I tried with sudo and it works thanks a lot i never thought about using sudo

 

[Henry Crun 75]

No worries. I've tried and failed since September when I started plaing on Linux rather than a Windows VM to get hardware rendering. I tried it on 4 distros, 8 DE combinations and started code-diving before the penny dropped. I run and manage dozens of Linux server and typing sudo is like typing my username but it just never occurred to me.....

https://xkcd.com/149/

ATB,

Dave

[JoulSauron 4]

On 28/4/2021 at 11:12 PM, Henry Crun said:

sudo java -jar NetworkAddonMod_Setup_Version41.jar

OMG... Yup, using sudo works for me as well... Just like TheStronciumGuy I feel ashamed. Well, now I know what to do for the NAM 42.

Thanks!!

[rsc204 21,814]

So it seems the failure to find the required library was likely because Java didn't have permission to load it rather than it being missing per-se.

@Tarkus: Just wanted to draw your attention to this, can we update the documentation to include this information for Linux users?

[Tarkus 6,932]

17 hours ago, rsc204 said:

@Tarkus: Just wanted to draw your attention to this, can we update the documentation to include this information for Linux users?

Yes, absolutely!  If there's a way we can script this on Linux . . . we might be able to do something similar to the Windows batch script for the installation package, too.

-Tarkus