java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java.awt.Container

Question

I am trying to install Visual Paradigm for UML. During the installation it crashes. This is the stack trace:

Unpacking JRE ...
Preparing JRE ...
Starting Installer ...
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java.awt.Container
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.frontend.headless.AbstractHeadlessScreenExecutor.init(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.frontend.headless.ConsoleScreenExecutor.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.frontend.headless.InstallerConsoleScreenExecutor.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.Installer.getScreenExecutor(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.Installer.runInProcess(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.Installer.main(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.launcher.Launcher.main(Unknown Source)
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java.awt.Component
    at javax.swing.ImageIcon.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.frontend.GUIHelper.loadIcon(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.frontend.GUIHelper.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.helper.InstallerUtil.reportException(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.installer.Installer.main(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(Unknown Source)
    at com.install4j.runtime.launcher.Launcher.main(Unknown Source)

It appears that the installer can't find a class in the WT library. I can't see how how that can be possible. Does anyone know what is causing this, and how I may fix it?

[System Information]

java version "1.6.0_24"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.5) (6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~12.04.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)

Answer 1

On ubuntu 14.04 the answer given by Hayden didn't work for me as the package doesn't exist.

This did work though:

apt-get install libxtst6:i386

i.e. it needs the 32 bit version of libxtst

Answer 2

Run the script with -J-Djava.awt.headless=true

sh SoapUI-x32-5.0.0.sh -J-Djava.awt.headless=true

Answer 3

I have had the same problem installing SoapUI software and this command works for me:

$ ./soapUI-x32-4.6.0.sh -J-Djava.awt.headless=true

My system:

Linux 3.10-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.10.7-1 (2013-08-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux

And my JVM version:

$ java -version
    java version "1.6.0_30"
    Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_30-b12)
    Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.5-b03, mixed mode)

Answer 4

I was getting the same problem when trying to install Visual Paradigm on Ubuntu 12.10 64 bit.

Java version:

java version "1.7.0_11"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_11-b21)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.6-b04, mixed mode)

This seemed to fix the problem:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs