Getting LinkVoodoo Working With Linux

Nick Wilsdon pointed out that I forgot to make some instructions for Linux and getting it to work with LinkVoodoo.  So luckily it’s fairly easy and as I’ve mentioned before, we tested our program heavily on Ubuntu, Mac OSX, XP and Vista with little problems.

Java Web Start is the software than will run our .jlnp files aka launch.php. This is the file you open when you’re about to run a scan with our backlink analyzer. Java should be installed by default on all of the main linux distributions, but if you don’t see it anywhere you can download it using apt-get;

I currently have both Java 5 and Java 6 installed on my machine and it’s very easy to switch between the two. Java 6 has some nice goodies such as JSR-223 and better jconsole that I like to use.

For Java 5:

sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre sun-java5-jdk sun-java5-plugin

For Java 6:

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin

There are other packages that you might be interested in:

• sun-java6-demo
• sun-java6-doc
• sun-java6-source

Now once you’ve got your Java files nicely updated, or installed, you can then go ahead and grab the Java Web Start files from Java. Remember our .jlnp file comes up as launch.php, and that’s the sucker you have to run to launch the app. You should be able to run it right away, or select open with Java Web Start to kick it off.

If anyone is having problems getting this to work on linux leave your problem in the comments and I’ll do my best to help you out!