running WEKA on Linux

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I am trying to run weka on linux server. The steps I followed as listed below: 1. I download a zipped archive containing Weka as given on http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/downloading.html

I then unzipped the zip file.
I next tried executing weka.jar using the command:

java -Djava.awt.headless=true -jar weka.jar

I also simply tried: java -jar weka.jar This also gives me errors.

I have set the DISPLAY variable using setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0. I have tried other values too such as DISPLAY 0

weka.jar has also been added to the PATH variable.

The error I am getting is as follows:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
Caused by: java.awt.HeadlessException
   at java.awt.GraphicsEnvironment.checkHeadless(GraphicsEnvironment.java:159)
   at java.awt.Window.<init>(Window.java:433)
   at java.awt.Frame.<init>(Frame.java:403)
   at javax.swing.JFrame.<init>(JFrame.java:202)
   at weka.gui.LogWindow.<init>(LogWindow.java:252)
   at weka.gui.GUIChooser.<clinit>(GUIChooser.java:215)
Could not find the main class: weka.gui.GUIChooser. Program will exit.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank You

Have you tried researching a bit? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23277062/cant-run-weka-explorer-on-ubuntu-14-04 — runDOSrun, Dec 16 '14 at 13:12
The solution listed their involves sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre. I cannot do that. — user2948166, Dec 16 '14 at 19:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '14 at 00:47

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Perhaps you need to add the CLASSPATH. For example:

java -cp "$CLASSPATH:./weka.jar" -Xmx500m weka.gui.explorer.Explorer

answered Dec 17 '14 at 00:47

riza

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 16 '14 at 13:10

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Google told me to run this command :

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre

answered Dec 16 '14 at 13:10

Michaël

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I am trying to set up weka in my local space on a server. Therefore, I do not have sudo rights. – user2948166 Dec 16 '14 at 19:33

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 18 '17 at 08:14

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When I did as following, it worked.

1. Extract weka.jar to directoy named weka.
1. Write a script runWeka.sh:

#! /bin/bash
WEKA_HOME="~/weka";
java -classpath $WEKA_HOME weka.gui.Main

1. Run this script.

answered Feb 18 '17 at 08:14

Sniper Law

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running WEKA on Linux

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