How to install GUI based filebot on Raspbian (arm)?

[fbot25]

Hey, hoping someone here has figured this out. I tried searching the forums and most of what I saw regarded cli install when dealing with the raspberry pi.

I'm running Raspbian on the raspberry pi B+,

Was trying to install the latest version of filebot from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/filebot ... Bot_4.5.6/

While the .deb packages would be super nice, I believe they would not work on the raspberry pi as it is an ARM chipset, and there are only .deb files for 32 bit or 64 bit.

But, I do see there is a .ipk file for arm, so I tried downloading this. Opened the tar file up but could not find/figure out what to do next in order to install. I tried searching some guides on installing .ipk files, but essentially they say to execute the preinst file, which there is not one. So I had no luck.

How can I install the filebot on my raspberry pi from the Desktop GUI environment on Raspbian?

Thanks!

[rednoah]

I'd got with the portable package then.

unpack and run filebot.sh

FileBot is platform-independent so as long as Java SE 8 is fully supported FileBot will run. Just some purely optional features that require 3rd party native libraries won't work if you don't have one compiled for your platform.

[fbot25]

Oh sweet, didn't realize the portable one was for linux thought it would just be for Windows!

I'll give it a go after I wrangle java 8 onto my pi.

[rednoah]

The most basic form of FileBot is really just the FileBot.jar and calling it with java -jar FileBot.jar but you'll probably wanna have a look at the portable package for all the extra options and setup configuration that is done via the filebot.sh startup script.

[fbot25]

OK, so I confirmed that Raspbian comes with oracle-java8-jdk, and when I tried installing it via apt-get it said I already had the latest version.

However, when I go to execute the filebot.sh script from the filebot portable package I get the following errors

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: net/filebot/Main : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:643)
	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:323)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:268)
Could not find the main class: net.filebot.Main. Program will exit.

Which is essentially just gibberish to me, but I do get the idea there is some sort of mismatch between the java package Raspbian has and what filebot wants.

Any idea what the problem is, and what I need for this to work properly?

[fbot25]

I tried adding Java SE Development Kit 8 Update 33 for ARM (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... 87472.html) following the instructions here https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/O ... spberry+Pi, which essentially have me unpackage the gz to /opt/jdk1.8.0_33. When I test it by:

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$ /opt/jdk1.8.0_33/bin/java -version
java version "1.8.0_33"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_33-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.33-b05, mixed mode)

It seems as though adding this Java SE worked, but still when I try to run the filebot.sh with ./filebot.sh I get the same error output as above.

[fbot25]

/facepalm

Turns out I simply needed to configure my system to use this new version of Java as the default for my system, and now filebot is running beautifully! Linux newb oops

http://www.rpiblog.com/2014/03/installi ... ry-pi.html

Potentially I didn't even need to install that Java 8 SE developer release, as I noticed the java 6 jdk was still set as the auto java choice when I went through this step

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sudo update-alternatives --config java

Where there also was an option for the oracle-jdk8

Anyways, thanks for your help and for letting me clutter up the forum with noob questions. I'll writeup a HOW-TO for others that details the steps I took to get this working in a bit in case anyone else is in the same boat.

[fbot25]

I am running into some trouble again after reinstalling Raspbian.

I downloaded the latest portable zip and unpacked it into ~/.filebot

I have configured Java to use /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-8-oracle-arm-vfp-hflt/jre/bin/java, which seems to be working

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pi@raspberrypi ~/.filebot $ java -version
java version "1.8.0"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0-b132)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 25.0-b70, mixed mode)

and running filebot.sh from the terminal produces this:

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pi@raspberrypi ~/.filebot $ ./filebot.sh
FileBot 4.5.6 (r2818) / Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0 (headless)

 --action [move, copy, keeplink,        : Rename action
 symlink, hardlink, test]
 --conflict [skip, override, auto,      : Conflict resolution
 fail]
 --db [TheTVDB, AniDB, TVRage] or       : Media database
 [TheMovieDB, OMDb] or [AcoustID, ID3
 Tags] or [xattr]
 --def [name=value]                     : Define script variables
 --encoding [UTF-8, Windows-1252,       : Output character encoding
 GB18030]
 --filter expression                    : Filter expression
 --format expression                    : Format expression
 --lang 2-letter language code          : Language
 --log [all, fine, info, warning, off]  : Log level
 --log-file path/to/log.txt             : Log file
 --log-lock [yes, no]                   : Lock log file
 --mode [rename, subtitles, sfv]        : Open GUI in single panel mode
 --order [Airdate, Absolute, DVD]       : Episode order
 --output folder                        : Output path
 --q series/movie title                 : Force lookup query
 -check fileset                         : Create/Check verification files
 -clear-cache                           : Clear cached and temporary data
 -clear-prefs                           : Clear application settings
 -extract                               : Extract archives
 -get-missing-subtitles fileset         : Fetch missing subtitles
 -get-subtitles fileset                 : Fetch subtitles
 -help                                  : Print this help message
 -list                                  : Fetch episode list
 -mediainfo                             : Get media info
 -no-xattr                              : Disable extended attributes
 -non-strict                            : Enable advanced matching and more
                                          aggressive guess work
 -r                                     : Resolve folders recursively
 -rename fileset                        : Rename media files
 -script path/to/script.groovy          : Run Groovy script
 -unixfs                                : Do not strip invalid characters from
                                          file paths
 -version                               : Print version identifier

But when I try to launch the filebot.sh script from the GUI, nothing happens. Previously, I would just double click the filebot.sh script in the GUI and after a little thinking the filebot GUI would start. Now, I double click the filebot.sh, choose "execute" from the options, then wait, but nothing ever happens.

I have tried enabling logs through the CLI

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pi@raspberrypi ~/.filebot $ ./filebot.sh --log-file /home/pi/.filebot/log.txt
pi@raspberrypi ~/.filebot $ ./filebot.sh --log all

but nothing seems to get dumped into my log file


How can I figure out why the GUI is not launching?

[rednoah]

If the command is not returning or showing any errors then it's probably working. For some users the FileBot window is displayed outside of the visible area. Your Gnome/KDE/etc should have some function to drag out-of-bounds windows back into the screen.

EDIT:

Although since it says Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0 (headless) it might be that you only have headless Java 8 (without all the UI components) though in this case there would certainly be some sort of output.

Calling filebot without arguments launches the GUI, unless you're in an headless configuration in which case it'll just print the usage.

[fbot25]

I wondered about that too, however, I think the headless part refers to the fact that I ran the filebot.sh script from the terminal in that instance, as it does not say headless when I check java -version.

Also, experimenting a bit I found that using gksudo launches the filebot GUI, but with some errors

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pi@raspberrypi ~/.filebot $ gksudo ./filebot.sh
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".

(gksudo:15388): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-label-select-on-focus after class was initialised

(gksudo:15388): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: Attempt to add property GtkSettings::gtk-button-images after class was initialised

Then it launches the GUI which seems to work, but is much slower.

Any idea how I can get the GUI to launch without having to use terminal and gksudo?

[rednoah]

1.
The (headless) part is added by FileBot is the JVM is in headless mode. The java -version output isn't necessarily the same. If you run via ssh terminal it's probably in headless mode. If you run via normal terminal window on the local machine it should not be in headless mode.

2.
I guess this is a general setup & configuration issue on your Raspbian with Java. You might wanna look into Stackoverflow or the Raspbian forums to solve these kinda issues.