DOWNLOADING BLUEJ
Assignments should be done using
the free BlueJ development environment over Java
Platform Standard Edition 8. (Java SE 8u11). To install
the BlueJ environment, please do the following:
1) Download BlueJ
a) go to: http://bluej.org/
b)
Download an installer that matches your operating system
* If you use windows, click on "bluej Combined Installer" to download
* If you use a mac with operating system 10.7.3 (Lion)
or later (Mountain Lion, Maverick), click on "BlueJ
Installer (includes oracle jdk)" to download
* If you use a mac with an operating system older than
10.7.3 (Early Lion or before), right click on "BlueJ
Installer (uses Apple jdk)" to download.
(Mac installs are not combined with JDK because Java
is already a standard install on the Mac.)
c) Click and run the downloaded BlueJ
version to install it.
3) Install course specific
modifications: (Credited to Dr. Steven
Bloch and Dr. Lee Stemkowski)
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Download the
appropriate version by right clicking the link and choosing save target (or
link) as, and then choosing the desktop:
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Mac – the Mac Version
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Windows - the windows version
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Remaining
instructions for PC:
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Find the bluej_stuff zip file on your desktop and right click to
unzip. (If you do not have the option to unzip the folder, you will need to
download 7zip from http://www.7-zip.org/ )
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Open the unzipped
folder called bluej_stuff..
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Right click on
installstuff.bat to run it as administrator
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Verify that you
do not see many “access denied” messages, which indicates the program was not
run as administrator.
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Launch BlueJ and verify that the help menu has the csc171 website.
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Note that the
readme file inside the zip file may help troubleshoot problems with this
installation.
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Remaining
instructions for Mac:
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Open finder.
Click applications. See either bluej folder or bluej bird. If you do not see the folder, look in your downloads folder and drag the bird into applications.
(If you only saw the bluej folder, double click to
expand it.)
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If you see bluej-legacy instead of bluej:
put all your bluej folders from applications and
downloads into the trash and restart your bluej
install.
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Go to your downloads folder to see the bluej_stuff
folder. Click it to get inside the folder.
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Click the
installStuff.sh file. It should open a terminal window.
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Read what that
window says. It should not say “#!/bin/sh”. It should not
say “could not find bluej” or “error”.
§ If it says “#!/bin/sh”, go
to finder, then applications, then utilities and then terminal and then
navigate to the downloads folder and then ./installstuff.sh
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Launch BlueJ and verify
that the help menu has the csc171 website.
4) Start BlueJ
- Choose start / programs / bluej
- If it shows a multiple java version window,
choose the largest number and click launch:
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If there are no
java versions available, please return to the main bluej
site to download and install oracle JDK. (The combined installer should, but I
found it did not recently.)
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Go to www.bluej.com ; click on oracle jdk; choose Java SE 8u20 download; choose to accept the
license and then download the 86 or 64 bit version of jdk.
Double click the download to launch the file.
